Caterina Barbieri soundtracks Gucci at Milan Men’s Fashion Week

Various tracks from the Italian composer were used alongside Marilyn Manson’s cover of ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’.

Music from Caterina Barbieri, Coil, Claudio Simonetti and Marilyn Manson provided an atmospheric soundtrack to the 2020 Menswear show from Gucci at Milan Men’s Fashion Week earlier today (January 14).

Set against a backdrop of a colossal, swinging pendulum, Caterina Barbieri’s tracks ‘Fantas’ and ‘Pneuma’ were used alongside Coil’s ‘Ostia’, Claudio Simonetti’s Phenomena OST and Marilyn Manson’s iconic cover of ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’.

The presentation marked Gucci designer Alessandro Michele’s first Menswear show in nearly four years and is intended as a statement against toxic masculinity. As the designer says in an Instagram post, the collection centers around “nourishing a space of possibility where masculine can shake its toxicity off.”

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‘It’s time to celebrate a man who is free to practice self-determination, without social constraints, without authoritarian sanctions, without suffocating stereotypes. A man who is able to reconnect with his core of fragility, with his trembling and his tenderness. A man on his knees in front of surrender, who honors fears and its thorns. A man full of kindness and care,’ from the men’s #GucciFW20 show notes ‘Masculine Plural’ which speak about the toxic stereotypes that mould masculine gender identity. The collection by @alessandro_michele unfolds today in the Palazzo Delle Scintille at 12:30 PM CET. Watch the show live through link in bio. #mfw #AlessandroMichele #RaveLikeYouAreFive

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