Gucci Pre-Fall 2018: 76 Off-the-Wall, '80s-Heavy, Rainbow-Patterned Looks

Generally, big fashion houses use their Pre-Fall collections to take big swings at logo gear and patterns: the kind of stuff to keep hungry customers satiated before their big fall drop arrives in August. But in Gucci's case, every season is about big logos and patterns—at least it has been since designer Alessandro Michele took the reigns in 2015. Gucci Pre-Fall 2018 is a now-standard explosion of color and print—except that it ups the ante on anything we've seen from the brand's menswear lineup in recent memory. How does one outdo tiger prints and track suits? By tapping into one of the most colorful fashion decades ever: the 1980s. This collection has pieces we've come to expect from Gucci, like silk shirts, corduroy trousers, coats made in fabrics you last saw on your grandma's couch, and suits in out-there hues. But this time, the Italian house adds primary-color gear and rainbow-patterned casualwear to the mix, along with retro accessories like one particularly sci-fi-inspired pair of sunglasses. Additionally, Michele teamed up with Major League Baseball on officially licensed caps, which look just like the ones guys were rocking in the 1980s. Gucci's full Fall-Winter 2018 offering won't debut for another month at the brand's womenswear show in Milan. But for now, this collection is more than enough to hold even the most Gucci-obsessed guys over.

Photos by Peter Schlesinger Courtesy of Gucci.