Demna's first Gucci collection is gorgeous but the fabric content made me want to scream
Ok so I was excited for Demna at Gucci, watched the runway, fell in love with the GG flower stretch lace dress from the SS26 La Famiglia collection, went to the website to obsess over the details, and the fabric content made me want to scream. Here's the dress: https://www.gucci.com/us/en/pr/women/ready-to-wear-for-women/dresses-and-jumpsuits-for-women/gg-flower-stretch-lace-dress-p-860543ZAUSO2131 - it's $4,980 and the fabric content is 49% viscose, 26% cotton, 20% polyamide, 5% elastane. The petticoat is 78% polyester. SEVENTY EIGHT PERCENT POLYESTER for $4,980. I get that stretch lace technically needs synthetics for the stretch but the polyester petticoat is just embarrassing at that price. I'm going to attempt to recreate the silhouette myself with actually decent fabric. Looking at real cotton lace for the overlay (or possibly a silk-cotton blend lace if I can find it) and a proper silk habotai or silk crepe de chine for the slip underneath. Has anyone else done this kind of thing? Pull up a runway piece you love, look at the fabric content, then make it yourself in materials that don't feel like H&M? Demna's Balenciaga era was full of this same stuff, all the structured pieces with high poly content. If anyone is sitting on cotton lace or silk crepe in neutrals lmk.
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