Parade will be the first performance ever of fashion held in the cloister of London church
Gucci will present its collection cruise 2017 (an intermediate collection, more commercial) on June 2, at Westminster Abbey in London, said on Wednesday the Italian fashion house to the newspaper The Telegraph . It is the first time a fashion house gets permission to hold a parade in the cloister of the iconic English monument where are buried writers and men of science as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Dickens, Darwin and Newton.
"London is always in my thoughts and in my memories. I am obsessed with the British culture, past and present, "said Alessandro Michele, creative director of Gucci to the British daily, describing permission to parade in Karachi, after" delicate negotiations ". It was a "magic" news.
However, some fashion critics and members of the clergy believe that this is not the place for a fashion show. The Independent , the Reverend Peter Owen-Jones says that this decision is part of a " Disneyfication of all traditional sacred spaces" Londoners. "The Church is the central icon of Christianity and serves to provide spiritual support and love or is it just part of the capitalist market?" He asked.
Vanessa Friedman, fashion critic of the New York Times , considers the context "a bit odd for a show of clothes." "We're selling our soul for a pair of pants," also reinforced the Reverend Peter Owen-Jones.
A spokesman for Westminster Abbey confirmed the permission granted to the Italian fashion house and stressed that the cloister has been available to hire for corporate events and assured that the reactions have been "positive".