Gucci recasts itself during Milan Fashion Week
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By COLLEEN BARRY
AP Fashion Writer
MILAN (AP) — Gucci returns to the Milan menswear runway with the brand’s first collection since Alessandro Michele stepped down as creative director. The Gucci runway show heralding the new post-Michele era was an understated affair. It was very much like Michele’s low-key debut eight years ago heading an in-house team. The show on Friday quietly recast the codes of the brand founded in Florence more than a century ago as a luggage company.