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Like many other designers this season, Frida Giannini also opened her Spring/Summer 2010 Collection, with white—a taut, multi-strapped dress that put Gucci on a glam, athletic, and almost sci-fi path with energy and conviction. She preferred to take her girl into realms of hippie and disco in past shows. But change of direction gave this show a turbo-charged shot, ranking it as the best, Giannini has done yet.

Jackets and high-waisted stretch leggings, were inset with sections of sports mesh. Lashed through the torso and outside leg with crisscross lacing of rubber piping, these jackets were bristled with some silver hardware also. Minimized and motocross parachute jackets and crocodile bikers all came out just like a sort of thing a Gucci girl loves.

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Midway came a drop in speed when show took a detour around ikat prints which was an odd thing to add, and probably a hedge against losing customer who has gone for folkloric side of Gucci recently. Giannini got back on track when the color and ikat pattern disappeared and was transformed into silvery needle-sharp embroidery on short black body-dresses.

The show came to an end with a robot-woman dress, totally encased in a tubular web of metallic and crystal beading that has nothing to do with bucolic, drifty, and romantic themes wafting up and down other runways.

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