Fashion Story

Since Alessandro Michele took charge of Gucci, Gucci's world has been full of bright colors, seeking inspiration from ancient myths and fables, taking us into the carefully cultivated psychedelic world, and perfectly integrating retro style with popular culture. Romance, literature, retro and printing have become new labels of Gucci. Alessandro Michele even prefers printed patterns. Cute and childlike, classical and rigorous, even street graffiti has been used in Gucci's design. Alessandro Michele moved the "Utopia" world to the real stage, cooperated with artists many times across borders, won the favor of the younger generation, and even brought Gucci to the literary tide.

Fashion and art are inseparable, and both have the same source of life-"creativity". Fashion has never stopped paying tribute to art. Fashion expresses art with clothes. Fashion presents a more tense form through art, which endows fashion with poetic artistic conception, while art makes fashion brands more valuable, and art also injects new vitality into the promotion of fashion. The two are harmonious, beautiful and appropriate.

Helen Downie, an illustrator in London, England, has no formal painting training, but has more than 200,000 fans on social media Instagram. Helen Downie experienced dropping out of school, early pregnancy, drug abuse and cancer in the first half of her life, and was reborn when she was nearly 100 years old. This made Alessandro Michele, the creative director of Gucci, fall in love at first sight, and was appointed as the official illustrator of Gucci. She changed her fate with her brush and became the new favorite of fashion.

Helen Downey has been a problem girl since she was a child. She/kloc-was expelled from school at the age of 0/5 and went to a creative arts university in Britain. The boring life gradually made Helen Downey addicted to drugs. After being discovered by her own children, Helen realized her responsibility as a mother and made up her mind to give up drugs. However, the difficulty of detoxification made her think of suicide more than once. When Helen Downey finally succeeded in getting out of the shadow of drugs, she was told by the hospital that she had breast cancer, and her life suddenly fell to the bottom. Encouraged by family and friends, Helen Downey did not fall down, but picked up a brush and continued to pursue her childhood dream. On the recommendation of a friend, Helen Downie registered her own account on social media Instagram, named herself an unskilled worker, and published her own works one after another. The fashionable and interesting painting style attracted everyone's attention, and gradually more and more people became her fans. This little-known housewife was miraculously appreciated by Alessandro Michele, creative director of Gucci.

The New York Times called her "a late bloomer who discovered Instagram-and fashion" (a rising artist who discovered Instagram and fashion), while The New York Times called her "an English housewife who became Gucci's darling" (a British housewife who became Gucci's treasure).

Appreciation of the Works of British Illustrator Helen Downey Gucci