Dancer Mr Nathan Mitchell models some of our favourite pieces from the brand that can do no wrong right now.

In January, after 11 years as creative director of Gucci, Ms Frida Giannini stepped down. Fashion month was in full flow, and the AW15 menswear show was due to take place in less than a week’s time. For Gucci, the obvious thing to do would have been to run with the existing collection, which had been designed and was ready to go. But it didn’t do the obvious thing. Instead, five days before the show, it decided to start again from scratch.

Over the next few frantic days (and presumably sleepless nights), the design team replaced everything – from the clothes to the models and even the venue – and produced a show that was a world away from the Gucci of old. Instead, androgynous models with long, lank hair and antique rings stacked on their fingers drifted down the runway in diaphanous shirts of silk and lace with pussy-bow ties. Others evoked the Rive Gauche beatnik look in berets, spectacles and crimson duffle coats. The brand’s longstanding icons were twisted into strange new shapes. Horsebit loafers became fur-lined slippers. Monogrammed accessories were defaced with graffiti-like flower print. The message could hardly have been clearer: it was all change at Gucci.