Photo: @alessandro_michele/Instagram Fashion month is only a few weeks away, but impending deadlines have never stopped designers from taking the full month of August off. If you’re Simon Porte Jacquemus, it’s a sacred time, involving lots of sunny selfies and matcha runs with friends like Kourtney Kardashian. Burberry designer Riccardo Tisci has spent the last few days posing shirtless in Mykonos.
There is one vacation photo that trumps them all, though, and it’s this one by Gucci designer Alessandro Michele. He poses with his bearded doppelgänger, Jared Leto in the middle of what appears to be Sicilian vegetable field. Both men wear matching Gucci straw hats over their long, luscious manes, with Michele’s braided into pigtails. They also both wear loud Gucci printed shirts, Michele in green and Leto in head-to-toe pink. They both cradle a colorful harvest in their arms.
There’s a lot to take in here. First, I love the fact that Michele uses the word “solitary,” as though Leto has become an extension of himself; he is his shadow. Call Michele by Leto’s name and Leto by his, etc., etc.. Second, I love the idea that these extremely clean men harvested these flowers and vegetables themselves.
So contrived.