All eyes are on Gucci’s new creative director Sabato De Sarno who makes his fashion week debut for the Italian house in Milan on September 22. But before De Sarno sets the runway ablaze, he’s already busy at work establishing his overall creative mastery and his love for the dialogue between fashion and art by way of Gucci Prospettive: a series of publications that will here on accompany each of Gucci’s collections.  

Stefano Collicelli Cagol, (PhD), director of the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato and former curator of the Rome Quadriennale (2018-2021), interpreted the vision for the first chapter, titled Gucci Prospettive n.1, Milano Ancora. It’ll be the first volume of a wide series, and what better way to kickstart it than with a love letter to Milan. The publication will spotlight the Italian city in all its glory: it’s undoubted fashionable impact on the world; the vast cultural wealth it holds through literature, music and cinema; and its artistic history and overall evolution from the post-war period to today.  

The works of Cristiano Rizzo, Martino Santori, Noura Tafeche, and Valerio Eliogabalo Torrisi—selected by Sabato De Sarno in collaboration with the Accademia di Brera among recent graduates—who’ve recounted Milan as a place of beauty and mystique beyond traditional narratives and as a present-day marvel, will be presented in a temporary gallery in Via Fiori Chiari 5 from September 19 to 23, to coincide with Milan Fashion Week. No points for guessing then that all roads lead to Milan right now.  :