Italian Fashion Watch

Nick Cave has been awarded the first annual Guc award for Artists in Film at the 63rd Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica on September 8th.

The award is given to, and we quote: “an internationally acclaimed artist whose achievements, until now, have been accomplished in areas other than cinema, but whose leap into the world of film has been an auspicious one.”

The Gucci Group Award is presented to an artist who has made a remarkable contribution to a film in any capacity within the past 18 months, whether in the role of the film’s director, actor, screenwriter, set designer or costume designer.

Shorlisted for this award were Nick Cave, for the script for “The Proposition”; Helena Christensen, for her role in Danish drama “Allegro”; Gregory Colbert, for his multimedia exhibition “Ashes and Snow”; the duo Douglas Gordon and Gaul’s Philippe Parreno, for helming soccer docu “Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait” and finally Alain Robbe-Grillet, for helming “C’est gradiva qui vous appelle”.

The judging panel included Jeremy Irons, Alexander McQueen and Moby.

The Gucci Group Award is a collaboration between the internationally recognized Venice Film Festival and the Gucci Group.

While designers such as Versace or Dolce&Gabbana presented collections that had sex written all over the place, Gucci came with an interesting alternative, inspired from the ‘60s fashion.

Gucci’s new designer, Frida Giannini, has stopped following the trend set by Gucci’s previous designer, Tom Ford, and took a new direction by using the floral models so popular when she started this career in the early ’70.

Huge glasses and crazy color combinations define this spring’s collection.

Frida Gianini became known at Gucci as a top handbag designer.

But with all the success in that area, fashion critics weren’t as satisfied with the collection pulled out here at Milan Fashion Week. Especially now that the retro chic idea was presented by other designers.