GCDS FALL WINTER 23/24 Fashion Show

The public and the private not always, or probably rarely, coincide. It’s behind closed doors that we more easily free our true self: by simply relaxing, or cheering; by releasing our appetites and desires, too. One way or the other, the household is the place we share with those who matter, and where we keep things that, to us, matter. Reducing the distance between his perceived public persona, and who he really is, this season Giuliano Calza brings the GCDS action home. Literally, in his household, where Kittho the cat reigns supreme. It’s Kittho himself who presides over the catwalk, blown up to gigantic proportions thanks to the artistry of Carnevale di Viareggio masters Fratelli Cinquini Scenografi e - another celebration of Made in Italy craft and skills - and covered in newspaper clippings - that’s just because Giuliano feeds his creativity with the news. There is nothing Giuliano loves more than being with Kittho, but most of all there is nothing he loves more than making clothes: real ones, meant to be worn, not tricks intended to trigger viral yet virtual response. This collection is a fusion of such urgencies, condensed in a pure act of fashion making. The house is the frame and the inspiration: à la GCDS, but of course. Giuliano Calza explores the obsessions and the proclivities that make him creatively thick: the very bourgeois tweeds of the jackets ladies wear; the pinstripes gentlemen depend on; the worn out leathers of their rebel off springs; the velvets of s