egyy during her tenure at the brand, creative director Frida Giannini has taken massive strides in streamlining and simplifying what it is to be the Gucci woman. Tom Ford’s hard-nosed excess was fun, but Giannini has long used up a softer experience that is a lot more viscerally luxurious, and she’s taken that even another step additionally with Gucci’s fall 2014 handbags. The collection features shapes both familiar and new, all made minimalist in soft leather and muted tones.
Gucci fans will right away recognized the newly pared-down new Jackie Hobo, which does away with some of the trim details that were holding the design in the last decade and makes it feel a lot more languid and casual. In addition, you’ll find small, structured carry bags with generous straps, plus oversized totes in what appears to be very sumptuous leather. To say we’re looking forward to seeing these bags in stores would be an understatement; this collection doesn’t try to hard or reach too far, and it does a lot of thinks exactly right.
[Images by means of Vogue.com]