He is so good,” and a text that offers plenty of clues to clear up the mystery for Warhol. It has a brief foreword by Andy Warhol, including the lines: “I don’t know why he hasn’t made it really big. These days he rebuffs the inevitable invitations to write his autobiography, but a scrappy memoir with his name on it, I Need More, did come out in 1982, long before the ground beneath his feet stabilized. In truth, Iggy Pop’s story was messy and uncertain for a long time, and it ending well was no sure thing. It ignores the fact that once the outcasts have been cast out, most of them never find their way back in, and that long shots are long shots because most of them will never see their number come up. That’s the way pop-culture history is generally written, where you know that every oddball and pioneer and long shot at the beginning of the story is always going to be acclaimed and get their due before the story’s end. As others around him have withered and fallen, he has persevered and triumphed. Then, in the 1970s, with acolyte David Bowie alongside him, he makes two remarkable classic-packed solo albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life…and on it has gone ever since. He already featured in the label’s cruise 2020 advertising images alongside Sienna Miller and Gucci Mane.Told through the soft gauze of nostalgia, Iggy Pop’s story is one of the great ones: In the late 1960s, James Osterberg, a small Michigan youth with big ideas, takes a new name and forms a group, the Stooges, in which he lays down one of the no-nonsense propulsive templates for punk rock, years ahead of time, and recklessly extends the possibilities of how one’s body might be used and abused on a stage-for just one aspect of this, he is often now credited as the inventor of the stage dive. Previously, Gucci men’s tailoring ads were fronted by the likes of Harry Styles, Tom Hiddleston and Dapper Dan.Īs for Iggy Pop, this is not the first time he has appeared in a Gucci campaign. Male elegance can be unpredictable and strange.” Perhaps elegance is something in the air that sometimes you are not even ready for. I like to tell the story of elegance in completely arbitrary and unexpected ways. “With these campaigns, I am working on different ways of being elegant, and these three men embody this idea perfectly. “This is another chapter of this journey,” Michele said about the men’s tailoring advertising series. From sunset to late at night, the trio is seen grooving to the tune throughout the mansion, the terrace and around the pool - always guarded by their pets. To the Seventies disco classic “Supernature” by Cerrone, the American singer is seen waiting for the arrival of A$AP Rocky and Tyler, the Creator doing crosswords before welcoming his guests and letting the private party start. While goofing around with the pets around a pot of spaghetti on a kitchen table or on a grassy terrace at night, the artists flaunt a range of monogrammed blazer jackets, three-pieces suits and popping knits, all styled with branded sunglasses, leather goods and jewelry.īut it’s a leopard-printed safari suit sported by Iggy Pop that takes the spotlight in the campaign video. In the images, the talents are portrayed both inside and outside the bold architectural spaces of the villa, with a little company from Iggy Pop’s pet parrot Biggy Pop and a hyacinth blue macaw. It was beautiful to see these three men together, seemingly different but very similar.” A certain type of fun is also portrayed and the idea of how one’s obsession with appearances can create a kind of common ground that can become a sort of brotherhood. “There is always this image of eccentricity, because they are in fact eccentric themselves. “The result is a group campaign with three men who I believe had fun, too,” Michele said in a statement. The brand’s creative director, Alessandro Michele, intended to evoke a fun, rock star lifestyle, envisioning a meeting of these flamboyant personalities in a modernist mansion located in Los Angeles, where the campaign was shot in February, prior to the pandemic.
In keeping with its eccentric aesthetic, Gucci tapped the three talents for its new men’s tailoring campaign and accompanying video, which were photographed and directed by Harmony Korine.
MILAN - Who needs TikTokers when you can have Iggy Pop, A$AP Rocky and Tyler, the Creator busting moves in a Californian villa?
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