Gucci Cruise 2019: Feast Your Eyes on 78 New Alessandro Michele–Designed Fits

You can try to Where's Waldo your way through Alessandro Michele's Cruise 2019 collection for Gucci to find every riffed-upon historical reference or subverted subculture informing the cerebral designer's latest offering, but you'd get about ten looks in before giving up (we tried, we did). Part of that is due to the sheer amount of eye candy that comes with the drop of a Michele-designed collection look book, in this case 78 fits featuring a riot of old-lady-leaning floral prints, geezer plaids, wallpaper-ish brocades, faux fur, screen prints and sequins and, naturally, interlocking G's (sometimes all in the same look). By the time you think you've got your head wrapped around every detail of the glam-rock-loving dilettante on holiday (the Martin Parr–lensed looks were shot in Cannes), you meet a suit-wearing skate rat. It's fashion whiplash of the best—only?—kind, which is in many ways Michele's calling card at the Italian house. It's also the other reason decoding a new collection can be a fool's errand: The mashup of streetwear and Savile Row and punk attitude and pure luxury is synonymous with Michele at this point. In his Gucci universe, Renaissance philosophy and Chateau Marmont laundry bags (now real bags meant to be carried beyond the hotel grounds) are both fair game as sources of inspiration. With each collection, you're watching the slow evolution of Michele's aesthetic, as opposed to an about-face that caters to the latest market trends. Which is why the new (skinny stovepipe pants in house flora prints and neon tiger stripes, scarf-pattern outerwear, Disney's Three Little Pigs) rubs shoulders with the familiar (rich-guy tracksuits, ’70s-era fat-lapel suits, pajama-inspired anything) to create this Cruise 2019 lineup that feels entirely Gucci—and nothing else. Scroll down to see all 78 of the designer's freshest menswear fits.