From sleeping giants to a surreal garden of Eden, here are the six things you need to see at the new Gucci Cosmos exhibition at 180 The Strand.
Forget everything you thought you knew about fashion exhibitions – Gucci Cosmos is something else entirely. This immersive, discombobulating, roving showcase celebrating the storied Italian brand’s 102-year history debuted in Shanghai this spring, and a new iteration of it has now landed in London, bringing both never-before-seen archival designs and surreal conceptual art to the Strand’s 180 Studios.
The ice-white garden of Eden There’s something both heavenly and vaguely eerie about the next room you come to: an all-white garden of Eden with mirrored walls, and giant insects and delicate flowers hanging from the ceiling – the latter a nod to the flora and fauna that adorned the silk scarf created for Princess Grace of Monaco by Rodolfo Gucci in collaboration with Italian illustrator Vittorio Accornero de Testa in 1966.
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