Gucci Podcast

C2C Festival, born in Turin in 2002 as Club To Club, is an international festival of avant-garde music and new pop. Since 2017, Gucci and C2C Festival started a creative collaboration celebrating music and art. Hosted by DJ and broadcaster Lil C and created in collaboration with the festival and Gucci Beauty, a partner of the upcoming events, this episode of the Gucci Podcast celebrates their 20-year anniversary with special interviews to Sergio Ricciardone and Guido Savini from C2C Festival's artistic direction and to musical artists including London-based duo, Jockstrap, and and Romy Madley Croft from The xx. 

Anya Paintsil is a Welsh and Ghanaian artist working primarily with textiles. From rug hooking to embroidery, her assemblages evoke tactile tapestry on the one hand, and constitute semi-sculptural interventions on the other. Playful and profound, flippant and forceful, her practice engages the language of fibers — of all kinds — with interrogations of materiality and political personhood. To celebrate Anya’s new exhibition in New York, Hannah Traore, founder and director of the Hannah Traore Gallery—a space committed to advocating for artists who have been historically marginalized—invited the artist on the Gucci Podcast. The result is a conversation about Anya’s art, the meaning of hair represented in her show, and her life as a Black artist growing up in Wales for a special episode debuting during Black History month in the UK.This episode was produced by Gucci Equilibrium, the House’s commitment to generate positive change for people and for our planet.

Enabling individuals to begin a journey towards self-discovery and holistic wellness the new Gucci x Oura smart ring monitors heart rate, temperature, and sleep activity, empowering the wearer to unlock their potential through insight and guidance provided by the ŌURA App. Presenting the ring and talking about well-being and mental health are guest host, creator and entrepreneur, Chriselle Lim, in conversation with Olympic champion, author and entrepreneur, Lindsey Vonn.

Founded in 2009 by Lev Tanju and Gareth Skewis, Palace has quickly transcended its status as a skateboard-focused brand, becoming the underdog force defining men’s fashion by not trying at all, but rather following an irreverent instinct. Invited by Creative Director Alessandro Michele to shake things up within the House’s repertoire of historic codes, Palace has designed its own collection for Gucci, found only on Vault. In this episode, host Shahida Bari talks to Lev Tanju, discussing the creative trajectory of Palace from its beginnings in a skate house in London’s Lower Marsh Street all the way up to its special collection for Vault. 

What can emerge from a period of confinement? One answer is Rat Hat—a crochet brand handcrafting vibrant creations. Alicesofia Navarin began it during lockdown when she craved new creative stimuli, and soon a hobby turned into a slow fashion production that encompasses her whole family. In this episode, host Shahida Bari talks to Alicesofia to discuss her home-grown fashion startup, which has created a limited-edition capsule collection of hats exclusively for Vault.Vault is the experimental online store expanding the narrative of the House. Through a careful curation of rare vintage Gucci finds alongside exclusive capsule collections from noteworthy brands, it becomes a meeting place where an impossible conversation becomes an inevitable one. To reveal a few facets of this ongoing dialogue on Vault, the Gucci Podcast sits down with the contemporary creators featured on the virtual shelves of the concept space.

On this episode dedicated to Vault, host Shahida Bari talks to Alex Olson, founder of the brand Bianca Chandôn, which collaborated with Vans on a capsule collection pondering the stars. With the collaboration as the jumping off point, the conversation delves into the eclectic influences from which Alex pulls to render Bianca Chandôn so distinctive. Vault is the experimental online store expanding the narrative of the House. Through a careful curation of rare vintage Gucci finds alongside exclusive capsule collections from noteworthy brands, it becomes a meeting place where an impossible conversation becomes an inevitable one. To reveal a few facets of this ongoing dialogue on Vault, the Gucci Podcast sits down with the contemporary creators featured on the virtual shelves of the concept space. 

In this episode, award-winning writer and activist Raquel Willis speaks with actor and artist Amandla Stenberg. They sat down together during 22 For ’22: Visions For a Feminist Future, a project of by The Meteor in partnership with Gucci’s Chime For Change. The event brought together 22 activists, artists, and leading voices to share their visions for a gender equal future. Raquel and Amandla discuss the fight for gender liberation, the importance of protecting and defending trans and non-binary youth, and embodying your true self. Follow @gucciequilibrium 

For the third and final installment of Vault Art Space’s exhibition and auction entitled ‘The Next 100 Years of Gucci,’ host Rowynn Dumont sits down with Luke Whyte from SuperRare Magazine to discuss how NFTs and Web3 have transformed art collecting. Recorded live on Twitter Spaces, artists Alex Trochut, Pindar Van Arman, and loudsqueak join in on the conversation to share their experiences in the shifting landscape, particularly how they are able to better connect with their collectors and community. Discover more of the creativity exhibited on Vault Art Space here.Music: 'Anti Chessst' by Proc FiskalSelected by C2C Festival

Opening in March of 2022, ‘Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear’ is the first major V&A exhibition to celebrate the power, artistry, and diversity of masculine attire and appearance. The show traces how menswear has been fashioned and refashioned over the centuries, and how designers, tailors, and artists – as well as their clients and sitters – have constructed and performed masculinity, unravelling it at the seams.This special episode features a conversation between Creative Director Alessandro Michele and Alexander Fury, the Fashion Features Director of AnOther Magazine and menswear critic of the Financial Times. Recorded at the V&A, the two discuss how Alessandro Michele’s work has shifted modern perceptions of fashion, especially the different ways of being a human. To follow, Hamish Bowles, Editor in Chief of The World of Interiors magazine and Global Editor at Large for Vogue, talks with the show’s co-curators, Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever. Together they recount the exhibition's

A nomadic space and platform for multidisciplinary experimentation, exploration and discussion, SPAZIO GRIOT recently inaugurated its first exhibition in Rome, sponsored by Gucci. In the new episode of the Gucci Podcast independent curator and cultural producer Johanne Affricot and by Céline Angbeletchy, an editor, artist and music producer known by the stage name EHUA present SPAZIO GRIOT. Together, they discuss the recent exhibition ‘SEDIMENTS. After Memory’ and talk to Autumn Knight—an interdisciplinary artist whose work is featured in the exhibition.SPAZIO GRIOT's summer programming will run until September 2022.

Spazio nomadico, piattaforma di sperimentazione multidisciplinare ed estensione fisica di GRIOTmag, Spazio Griot nasce con la volontà di amplificare le voci sottorappresentate e marginalizzate nel panorama artistico e culturale italiano e internazionale. In occasione di “SEDIMENTS. After Memory”, mostra che apre la programmazione artistica estiva di Spazio Griot, la curatrice e produttrice culturale indipendente romana e direttrice artistica dello spazio Johanne Affricot racconta la mostra insieme all’artista Christian Offman, tra i protagonisti dell’esposizione. Esplorando e approfondendo il significato dell’opera presentata dall’artista, la conversazione tocca temi importanti, come cittadinanza e appartenenza. Visita “SEDIMENTS. After Memory”: la mostra, sponsorizzata da Gucci, è aperta al pubblico fino al 4 settembre 2022, presso i padiglioni 9a e 9b del Mattatoio a Roma.

In many ways ushering in the future of art, the rise of NFTs has expanded the playing field for artists, especially those who are digitally focused. As a spotlight and a platform created through a partnership between Gucci and SuperRare, Vault Art Space further explores these opportunities within Web3. In occasion of Drop II of ‘The Next 100 Years of Gucci,’ exhibition, artist, philosopher, curator, and writer Rowynn Dumont hosted a conversation alongside Luke Whyte from SuperRare Magazine on Twitter Spaces. Artists Alexis Christodoulou, Jordan Schiffer, Pet Liger, Tyler Spangler, VEXX, and YEAHYEAHCHLOE joined the discussion, sharing how NFTs have opened up new opportunities for their practices. Discover more of the creativity exhibited on Vault Art Space here.Music: 'Anti Chessst' by Proc FiskalSelected by C2C Festival

Created in collaboration with Talk Art, this special episode of the Gucci Podcast celebrates ‘Shifting Intimacies,’ an exhibition by visual artist Andrew Moncrief sponsored by Gucci to generate conversations about what masculinity and identity mean in 2022, through the prism of our men’s universe.Influenced at an early age by a rigid and immobile interpretation of masculinity, Andrew’s work explores depictions of the male identity, questioning idealism, queerness, and representation. The Canadian artist, now based in Berlin, questions masculinity and the representation of queer bodies in his surreal and powerful canvases inspired by existing images, reworked as collages where colors and shapes intermingle. Hosted within Gucci’s Saint-German boutique, the exhibition, comprising a series of paintings featuring five queer Berlin personalities wearing pieces from the Gucci Love Parade collection, ran during Paris Fashion Week in June 2022.Music: 'Remolinos' by Sara BertsSelected by C2C Festival

Expanding the narrative of the House, Gucci’s experimental online store inaugurates its very own platform to view and collect NFT artworks from contemporary creators. Through a partnership between the House and SuperRare, Vault Art Space launches its first exhibition and auction entitled ‘The Next 100 Years of Gucci.’ To celebrate the first of three drops, artist, philosopher, curator, and writer Rowynn Dumont hosted a conversation alongside Luke Whyte from SuperRare Magazine on Twitter Spaces with illustrator An Chen from Taiwan, 3D artist Sasha Katz based in Athens, painter Alanna Vanacore living in New York, experimental artist Dārta Katrīna from Latvia, and interdisciplinary artist Kris Andrew Small based out of Sydney, Australia.Discover more of the creativity exhibited on Vault Art Space here.Music: 'Anti Chessst' by Proc FiskalSelected by C2C Festival

In a special episode of the Gucci Podcast, guest host Jian DeLeon, men's fashion and editorial director at Nordstrom and former editorial director at Highsnobiety, is recorded in conversation with Laura Whitcomb, founder of Label NYC with ties to adidas’ fashion exploration in the 90s, and whose work is referenced by Alessandro Michele today.Together they talk about the history of streetwear, how philosophy intersects with fashion, and the recently launched adidas x Gucci collection.  Discover more about adidas x Gucci here. Music: 'Mind in Camden' by EnchanteSelected by C2C Festival

To celebrate Pride month, a new episode created in collaboration with Gucci Equilibrium - the House’s commitment to generate positive change for people and our planet - is hosted by Jordan Anderson, founder of ‘My Queer Blackness, My Black Queerness,’ an ongoing digital project in exploration of Black Queer identity. He is joined in conversation by Banji Chona, Ericka Hart, M.eD, and SA Smythe Ph.D. on a discussion about the perception of sexuality and pleasure among Black Queer people and Black people at large, and how liberation through sexuality can serve as a fundamental part of our growth.Discover Gucci EquilibriumDiscover more about MQBMBQ Music: 'Morgengabe' by Palazzi D'OrienteSelected by C2C Festival

In a new series of films created in collaboration with Vogue, the charismatic women of the Gucci Bloom family explore empowerment from within themselves, reminiscing on stories of their own personal awakening. Celebrating their strength, power and continued evolution as women, the first films in ‘The Awakening’ series see Florence Welch  and Jodie Turner-Smith in moments of poise and performance, as well as rest and reflection.Introduced by the voice of Vogue contributor Kathleen Baird-Murray, in the first act Florence Welch describes the realizations that have shaped her creative processes and her personality. Here, we hear Florence speak on her own strength, power and continued evolution. For Jodie Turner-Smith, mothering her daughter has been an awakening. Here, she reminisces upon the connectedness she feels with her body and mind since motherhood.  Discover more about ‘The Awakening’ here and hereEnter the world of Gucci Beauty Music: 'shaolin mantis' by Marina HerlopSelected by C2C Festival

The Gucci Podcast series dedicated to Vault returns with special episodes celebrating the designers and brands around the world being championed by Gucci’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele. With the launch of their namesake brand Gohar World, artists and sisters Nadia and Laila Gohar propose a new take on tableware. Merging Nadia's practice as a painter and Laila's use of food as a medium to create unique convivial experiences around the world, the duo conceived the concept in 2020 with the intention of bringing magic to everyday moments. Gohar World is a tableware universe which celebrates time, tradition, craft, and humor. Rather than setting the table, Gohar dresses the table. Both fanciful and functional, their surrealist home objects are future heirlooms designed in New York and made by family-run ateliers. On this episode, Nadia and Laila talk with academic, critic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari about Gohar World and their capsule collection made exclusively for Vault. Discover more about Gucci Vault

Figura irregolare, l’artista, stilista e designer Cinzia Ruggeri si è mossa con assoluta libertà tra diverse discipline del panorama creativo italiano, dando vita ad opere ironiche, provocatorie, eleganti e mai scontate, accomunate dal desiderio di ridefinire lo status formale e funzionale di ogni elemento della quotidianità.In occasione di “Cinzia Says…”, la prima grande mostra antologica a lei dedicata, il direttore artistico del MACRO Luca Lo Pinto e l’autrice e curatrice Mariuccia Casadio conversano con il giornalista e direttore artistico Carlo Antonelli addentrandosi in un racconto di amicizia e creatività, di libertà e dedizione verso sé stessi: una finestra sulla vita e la carriera di questa poliedrica artista. Visita “Cinzia Says…”: la mostra, sponsorizzata da Gucci, è aperta al pubblico fino al 28 agosto 2022, presso il Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Roma.

The Gucci Podcast series dedicated to Vault returns with special episodes celebrating the designers around the world being championed by Gucci’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele. On this episode, host Shahidha Bari talks to Julian Klincewicz, filmmaker, photographer, musician, artist and skater who collaborated with Vans on a capsule inspired by family summers in Michigan. Channelling memories of dune grass, swimming, sunburn, first kisses and summer crushes, the Vans by Julian Klincewicz capsule is about experience. Built into the shoes is the idea of discovery. The suede is meant to fade – the rubber and canvas wear down, the red of the heel rub away to reveal purple – all symbolic of clothes worn and life lived.Discover more about Vault