Let’s Get Physical: Getting to Grips with Demna’s New Gucci

MILAN — Demna’s first show for Gucci opened with a little white dress, a seamless silk tube woven like a stocking. He thought of it as a blank slate, a statement about body-consciousness from which followed every other second-skin piece of clothing that made its way down the runway. It was a celebration of the body which came from a designer who has finally learned to love his own after a lifetime of despising the way he looked. It was also an experiment, one that has confounded, even…