What if Harry Potter was a fashion designer and he sent Hermione Granger down the runway in the middle of the magical halls of Hogwarts School of Magic? What look would a fashion-conscious apprentice wizard wear today, and what high fashion items would be all the rage in a world far beyond the imagination of “muggles” (non-magical people)?
These and other questions that only very few have asked themselves so far were answered on Friday in the breathtaking setting of the Castel del Monte Castle in Apulia, when none other than the Gucci fashion house invited to a fashion show that was as pompous as it was breathtakingly magical. Under the name “Cosmogony”, a fashionable “ode to the cosmos”, Gucci chief designer Alessandro Michele performed a fashion magic trick of a special class – at the same time he carried off into the past, the present, the future and straight into a whole new fashion universe .