Gucci Podcast

When it comes to feminism, it’s not just about changing the ways we raise girls, it's about the way we raise all our children. In this episode, hosted by activist and podcaster Brittany Packnett Cunningham, she speaks with Oscar-winning filmmaker Travon Free. They sat down during the 21 for ’21 event, produced by The Meteor and supported by Gucci’s campaign for gender equality, CHIME FOR CHANGE. The event brought together 21 visionaries to share crucial ideas about what it will take to build a better, fairer and freer world. Together they discuss Travon's Oscar-winning short film “Two Distant Strangers” as well as the wider phenomenon of masculinity, and what happens when men, especially Black men, dare to question old norms. This episode of UNDISTRACTED was produced by creative collective The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios.

Celebrating Gucci’s first Virtual Sneaker and the Sneaker Garage feature on the Gucci App, this episode brings together some of the most creative minds within the sneaker world. Host Chris Danforth, in discussion with guests Helen Kirkum and Jacques Slade, covers how creativity has helped and will continue to influence the evolution of sneakers from the streets to the runaway and how the digital world can further develop the role of sneakers in society. Chris is a freelance writer and photographer who has worked as a sneakers editor for Highsnobiety and Hypebeast. Helen is a London based designer and artist who recreates sneakers from recycled materials by breaking them down into their component parts and rebuilding. Jacques, otherwise known as Kustoo on social media, is a worldwide sneaker expert and one of the most influential sneaker-heads on YouTube. This episode of the Gucci Podcast is brought to you by The SneakerPod, the sneaker podcast by nss magazine. Discover more on the Gucci App.

“Le cose succedono esattamente nel momento in cui devono accadere. Non un minuto prima, non uno dopo”. Boss Doms racconta così la sua visione della vita e dell’arte nell’episodio del podcast realizzato in collaborazione con GQ, all’interno di una storia dedicata al rapporto tra tradizione sartoriale e stile personale, regole e sovversione. Una storia che per Boss Doms inizia a dieci anni, quando prese in mano la sua prima chitarra acustica e imparò a suonare da autodidatta, mentre nella sua testa risuonavano i pezzi degli AC/DC, dei Radiohead e dei Led Zeppelin che ascoltava in cuffia al ritorno da scuola. E in questo racconto, l’artista torna fisicamente e metaforicamente a scuola, ricordando l’importanza della disciplina e dell’esercizio quotidiano, ma anche della curiosità e della libertà di sperimentazione. Rock, ma poi pop, techno, musica latina, le orchestre: il produttore discografico, chitarrista e dj romano trae ispirazione da ogni esperienza e la esprime attraverso il suono, i colori, i costumi di scena. Uno stylist della musica, che cuce il suono addosso all’artista: come un sarto, prende le misure con rigore, ma poi sovverte le regole per dare vita a qualcosa di unico.

In celebration of DETROIT VS. EVERYBODY designer Tommey Walker’s collaboration with Gucci—made possible through the Gucci Changemakers program, a social impact initiative focused on increasing inclusion and diversity within the fashion industry and across communities and cities—Tommey speaks to activist, educator and member of the Gucci Changemakers council Brittany Packnett. Tommey has teamed up with Gucci to create a special lineup of T-shirts utilizing his DETROIT VS. EVEYRBODY signature design to celebrate the 11 US changemaker cities with sales contributing towards the social impact programs. The partnership with Tommey Walker will be the first time Gucci has introduced a product collaboration under the Changemakers umbrella and to honor Tommey’s hometown, Gucci will release a special-edition GUCCI VS. EVERYBODY T-shirt, marrying the creative identities together, available exclusively in Detroit at the Troy Somerset Collection Gucci store. Using fashion and design as a tool of empowerment, this partnership aims to lead the charge in the fight for meaningful change. Listen as Tommey and Brittany chat through the journey of his brand, the makings of the collaboration and what is at the core of the VS. EVERYBODY message. Discover more on www.equilibrium.gucci.com/

Known as the ‘fashion gardener’ for his oversized botanical prints in clashing colours, Ken Scott was an American designer residing in Milan in the 60s and 70s. To emphasize the Epilogue collection’s retro, eclectic spirit, Alessandro Michele chose prints from Ken Scott archive, preserved by Como-based textile producer Mantero, and applied them to emblematic House designs. To celebrate the work of Ken Scott, the story of the designer’s life, work and legacy is narrated by writer, academic, critic and Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion, Shahidha Bari.

Hosted on Gucci’s Instagram Live, Academy award winner actor and musician, Jared Leto, speaks to Academy award winner film director, photographer and The North Face Athlete Jimmy Chin about #TheNorthFacexGucci collection and a recent project they shot together for Sidetracked magazine in Joshua Tree National Park. Jared is photographed by Jimmy, a fellow climbing enthusiast, wearing #TheNorthFacexGucci collection in the national park. Listen as this duo recount their climbing adventures and reminisce on the Sidetracked project. Discover #TheNorthFacexGucci collection on Gucci.com Read the article on link to sidetracked

Made in Partnership with Stance Podcast and Vibe Called Tech and inspired by The North Face and Gucci collaboration, Pioneers of the Past is a celebration of four talents who are remapping and rethinking how the Black image is presented in fine and contemporary art. In this podcast you will hear from four curators and visual researchers who are defining new ways of looking and seeing the Black image in visual arts. Frustrated with the lack of representation on her degree course, Cambridge University student Alayo Akinkugbe started the Instagram account A Black History of Art early last year. Her platform highlights the overlooked Black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers in Art History. Renata Cherlise has been building an extraordinary archive of Black images at BlackArchives.co, redefining who chooses the images preserved and celebrated. Through her work, she builds places where the Black image lives for itself rather than in some kind of abstraction of whiteness. Theo Imani is an Italian Ghanaian medical student and visual researcher with a passion for finding echoes between the African and European image. His Instagram account @theoimani seeks to interrogate the relationship between imagery, teasing the classical and the contemporary to reframe notions of the Black image. Osei Bonsu, International Curator at Tate Modern is an expert in Black, African and diasporic art. His work as an independent curator in Paris and London seeks to challenge institutions and artists to fully represent the range and nuances of black art, pushing the art world to expand their understanding and appreciation. The cover image for this podcast was created by collage artist Jazz Grant. Discover more on https://bit.ly/3ph2NFn Follow Gucci Equilibrium on www.instagram.com/gucciequilibrium/

For the launch of Gucci’s new beautifying foundation and primer, the star of the campaign, Lily Gavin, sits down with her friend Aimee Mullins. Lily is a 25-year-old multidisciplinary artist, actress and director from New York City. Aimee is an actress, athlete and regular public speaker for TED. Recorded together in the Oxfordshire countryside in England, the pair chat about Lily’s experience of starring in the new campaign, the slow but necessary deconstruction of traditional beauty norms and what they consider to be true beauty, coming from within.

Coming together to discuss activism, inclusivity and accessibility, Elina Dimitriadi, Fashion Features Editor for Vogue Greece, interviews Sinéad Burke and Jeremy O. Harris. Sinéad Burke is a writer, academic, teacher and disability advocate and Jeremy O. Harris is an actor and playwright. Both recently joined the advisory board of CHIME FOR CHANGE, the global campaign founded by Gucci in 2013 to convene, unite and strengthen the voices speaking out for gender equality. The theme of their conversation is centered around the joy of giving, bringing together individuals that continue to fight for noteworthy causes and are dedicated to making the world a better, more inclusive and more accessible place. Listen as they discuss their activism, how to achieve authentic inclusivity and the importance of giving marginalized voices space to live, breathe and grow.

‘Willi Smith: Street Couture’ is the first exhibit dedicated to American designer Willi Smith (1948–1987) held at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. The exhibit of more than 200 pieces highlights how the designer and co-founder of iconic brand WilliWear broke down social, cultural, and economic boundaries. In this episode, two of Willi Smith’s friends, Bethann Hardison and Kim Hastreiter join William Ndatira to reflect on Willi Smith’s life, career and spirit. Bethann Hardison, member of the Gucci Global Equity Board and of the Gucci’s Global Corporate Executive Committee, is a model and activist and met Willi Smith when she was just starting out in New York working in the garment business. Journalist, editor and publisher Kim Hastreiter grew up in New Jersey and moved to New York to become an artist. She switched paths to become a journalist and in founded Paper Magazine in 1984, Willi Smith was her downstairs neighbor. Listen as these long-time friends reflect on fond memories of Willi Smith and look back on the fashion scene in New York in the 80s. As a public health precaution due to COVID-19, all Smithsonian museums are temporarily closed. In the meanwhile, you can discover more about Willi Smith on: https://willismitharchive.cargo.site/

Elle Fanning’s short film called ‘Gucci Always Wins’ featuring the Jackie 1961 bag launched as part of the Absolute Beginners series in collaboration with Dazed. #GucciABsoluteBeginners is a series which sees artists do something they have never done before: direct their very first short-film. Listen to this episode to hear Elle Fanning deep-dive into the process and thinking behind her work with her friend and seasoned writer, graphic designer and director Mike Mills, who previously directed Elle Fanning in the 2016 comedy-drama ‘20th Century Women’. Watch 'Gucci Always Wins' by Elle Fanning: on.gucci.com/ElleFanningGucciPodcast Read more about #GucciAbsoluteBeginngers: on.gucci.com/AbsoluteBeginnersGucciPodcast

For Alessandro Michele’s return to Menswear in January of this year with the Fall Winter 2020 collection, hosted at the Palazzo delle Scintille in Milan, punk legend and writer Richard Hell was seated on the front row. Revealed on the runway were a lineup of T-shirts which featured word combinations from Richard Hell's book 'Psychopts,' created in collaboration with his friend and artist Christopher Wool. Original artworks include pairs of words overlapping one another, such as ‘think’ with ‘thank’ and ‘impatient’ with ‘impotent’ which were featured in the Menswear collection as slogan T-shirts. Throughout the years, from his punk band era through to career as a writer, Richard Hell has been collecting these unusual word combinations. In this podcast, Richard is interviewed by William Ndatira, otherwise known as William Cult on Instagram. Their conversation is themed around words and more specifically around Freudian slips. Together they discuss Richard’s word pairings seen in the Gucci Fall Winter 2020 collection, the story behind his book 'Psychopts' as well as his hugely successful and vibrant career. To end the episode and in exploration of Richard’s unlikely word combinations, William asks his friends to share anecdotes of the times when they had unwittingly mixed up words themselves.

Blossoming into life, the new Gucci Bloom campaign is set in a garden of dreams at the revered La Scuarzuola, a mystical landmark found deep in Italy's Umbrian hills near Orvieto in Italy. La Scuarzuola is a surrealist architectural compound built around an old Franciscan convent, designed by architect Tomaso Buzzi in the late 1950s with stairs and bridges that lead no where, this enchanting and mysterious place becomes the set of a campaign for the first time and is transformed to express a dream filled with flowers and plants. To celebrate the new Gucci Bloom visionary campaign, we will hear a story, written and read by Vanessa Grall, writer and founder of the blog Messy Nessy Chic. Vanessa, or “Nessy", has spent the last few years dedicating her blog to discovering the quirks and curiosities of Paris and beyond. Given the curious nature of this magical garden, in this episode she explores in her own words the secrets and story of La Scuarzuola - the magical set of Gucci Bloom's new campaign.

Listen as Mother and daughter duo Tonya and Satchel Lee—director of the new Gucci Changemakers film—reflect on the year so far in an honest and open conversation. They discuss the instability we have lived through this year particularly the impact the Black Lives Matter movement and what actionable change really is. They also touch on how important family is to them, their daily rituals and how they have maintained their creativity during this uncertain time. Since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts film program in 2017, filmmaker Satchel Lee is creative director of queer fashion and art publication Drøme. Tonya Lewis Lee, Satchel’s mother is a film and television producer, author, entrepreneur and advocate for women and infant health. Watch Satchel Lee's film for Gucci Changemakers on equilibrium.gucci.com/

The new special edition of the CHIME FOR CHANGE Zine amplifies the voices of Black women and girls in gender violence discourses to uplift their stories, advance a gender-inclusive narrative in the movement for Black lives, and demand intersectional justice. Created in collaboration with the African American Policy Forum and guest-edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, the CHIME Zine is dedicated to the #SayHerName campaign—first launched in December 2014 to bring awareness to the often-invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by police violence. This podcast episode features the stories of three Black women who were victims of police violence. Their stories will be told by family members who carry forth their legacy—mothers and sisters who are also contributors to the Zine. You will hear from Gina Best, the mother of India Kager who was killed by Virginia Beach police in 2015; then Maria Moore, the sister of Kayla Moore who was killed by Berkeley police in 2013; and to conclude, Melania Brown, the sister of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, who died in solitary confinement at Rikers Island jail in June 2019. Discover more on: on.gucci.com/ChimeZineSayHerName_