GCDS FALL WINTER 24 "TOYS FOR ADULTS" FASHION SHOW

GCDS TOYS FOR ADULTS styled by Carine Roitfeld Why should kids have all the fun? Adults deserve toys too, and in the GCDS world that means injecting the unparalleled quality of Made in Italy goods with pop culture influences. These indulgences, dubbed Toys for Adults, will tempt you by speaking to your inner child. “Bring me something beautiful” – as a child, Giuliano Calza would ask his father this whenever he traveled for business. What exactly he brought back did not matter so much as the elusive element of beauty and desirability – a feeling of love and longing that turned trinkets and toys into some of our most cherished possessions before we dismissed them as grown ups. The Fall 2024 collection reverts to that childhood nostalgia, exploring memories and moods through a distinctly GCDS lens. Do you remember the experience of watching a horror movie and feeling traumatized, yet completely mesmerized? Or the longing to return to childhood, a time when you desperately wanted to fast forward to live the world as adults? These are universal experiences, and their inherent dualities and ironies are fodder for playful subversion. Alluding to our purity at birth, the show opens with a knit ensemble that reveals the body in its most natural form. In sheer white, its innocence is underscored by delicate ruffled trim. The silhouette soon expands with the padded hips of a wedding dress. Here, it does not close the fashion show as in haute couture tradition, but serves as an