Gucci’s subsequent designer collaboration is with Comme Des Garçons

Earlier this 12 months Gucci and Balenciaga despatched a shock collaborative assortment down the catwalk. Comprising traditional Gucci Jackie baggage printed with “Balenciaga” and waist-nipped go well with jackets in Gucci’s daring Rhombus design, the so-called “hacking” stood as Gucci’s first-ever full-blown high-fashion designer collaboration in its 100-year-long historical past.

Now, following on from the Gucciaga assortment, which is ready to go on sale this autumn, the Italian luxurious label has teased one other designer partnership, this time with Japanese label Comme Des Garçons. 

Taking to Instagram, in addition to the newly launched Gucci Vault web site the place you’ll find limited-edition Gucci garb, the workforce over on the Italian home revealed the upcoming collaboration by way of a brief, five-second video. The movie exhibits the partial opening of a Gucci x Comme Des Garçons field, which Gucci has confirmed accommodates a yet-to-be-unveiled, co-designed procuring tote bag.

This isn’t the primary time that the duo has dropped a cobranded boxy shopper. Again in 2018, Comme Des Garçons’ PVC-wrapped paper totes that includes Gucci’s well-known green-and-red stripe element sitting on high of the CDG emblem went on sale at choose Dover Road Market places. Following that, the duo then launched the identical PVC bag with an all-over Gucci floral design. Naturally, each baggage offered out in minutes.

For this collaboration, which to this point has been shrouded in secrecy, we’re hoping that one in all Gucci’s canvas totes has acquired the CDG remedy. An all-over GG monogrammed shopper wrapped in PVC? Sure, please.

The Gucci x CDG boxy procuring tote might be out there from Friday 15 October at gucci.com and Gucci’s newly opened Circolo Shoreditch retailer. Make it your bag for all times.

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