The sun lingers longer in these quiet hours. A golden hush settling over earth, fabric, skin. In the sanctuary of a place unseen – somewhere between nostalgia and the new – model Lea Lukek moves like a whisper, dressed in the codes of Sabato De Sarno’s Gucci. A wardrobe built for soft strength, for longing, for return.
The Gucci Bamboo 1947 bag is here a talisman of timelessness, its curved bamboo handle and supple leather has no need for declaration. Lukek steps lightly, boots embellished with the emblematic Horsebit hardware. But these symbols of the House thread through the collection: equestrian motifs on bags, buttery leather folding like memory, a palette that feels both sun-warmed and shadow-cooled. The quiet precision of De Sarno’s vision, where heritage and modernity elapse into one.
This is a retreat not just into tactility, but into self – where the air is thick with something unspoken, where the weight of past and present dissolves into the now. Lukek, unhurried, moves through this landscape like she’s always belonged here. Like the pieces were made for this very moment, the stillness, the escape, the knowing.
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