Last night, many of the guests at Gucci’s latest travelling show in the Puglian countryside complained about not sleeping well. Perhaps it was the inevitable jetlag that comes with the travelling circus of cruise shows, shuttling between continents far and wide in pursuit of catwalk spectacles, but it turns out there was an altogether more cosmic reason for the widespread insomnia. It was a full moon. Not just any full moon, but a peach-coloured ‘flower moon’ — named after the blooms of spring — in a full lunar eclipse. Is there anything more Gucci than a moon in full bloom? So, last night, beneath a lunar glow, Alessandro Michele staged one of his best shows yet, and certainly the most magnificent — with an ode to the stars, planets and all things astrological. According to him, it was a complete coincidence that it was a full moon — but then, as with most astrologically-related matters, it could have been fate for Italian fashion’s favourite Sagittarius. 

Given an entire generation has adopted astrology and horoscopes as a sort of twenty-first-century religion, it couldn’t be more prescient — or smarter, given that there’s something universal about stargazing, befitting for a brand as global as Gucci with customers of all kinds of religions and races. The show itself was titled ‘Gucci Cosmogonie’, taking place on a steaming catwalk circling the pockmarked stone walls of the Castel del Monte in Puglia, which Gucci lit up with projections of shooting stars and faraway galaxies. It will go down as one of those unbelievably fabulous fashion moments: a fairytale castle lit up with stars, literal ones and Hollywood ones, under the glow of a scarlet moon! Every guest was gifted an actual star, too, named in their honour. Yes, really. 

It felt…