On the boulevard of broken dreams...

Say what you like about Alessandro Michele but he sure knows how to put on a show.

Last week in the heart of Los Angeles he brought the “Gucci Love Parade,” his first in-person show since February 2020, to Hollywood Boulevard. The original boulevard of broken dreams.

Beginning at the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theater , movies and fashion collided to create something unique. A full city block was cordoned off, each side of the Walk of Stars lined with hundreds of director’s chairs in signature Gucci canvas. Onto these little chairs perched the great and the good of tinseltown.

The stars were not just watching but walking in the show. The appearance of his muse Jared Leto ( who also appears in the upcoming House of Gucci) was a given but much more suprising was the sight of Mccauly Culkin sauntering down the street.

From Annie Hall to Kill Bill, inspirations were playfully reinterpreted to the delight of those watching.

Michele professed his love for Hollywood in show notes presented in a manila evidence folder, dressed up in an LA noir theme. His mother worked as a production assistant and told him stories about her time in “that dream factory,” he wrote. “This boulevard of stars lends perfect support to my uncurbed love for the classical world. Hollywood is, after all, a Greek temple populated by pagan divinities.”

Watching the catwalk, my brain provided the soundtrack courtesy of Hanoi Rocks.

I’m not sure if AM has ever heard or seem them, but a young Michael Monroe would surely have inspired him .

Queen Marie

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