Gucci x Freya Hartas Silk Bomber Jacket

Chest: 56 cm

Length: 55 cm

Length = total garment length measured from the top of the shoulder down to the bottom hem.

Chest = flat measurement from one armpit seam to the other.

‼️This product is pre-owned and may feature minor signs of wear. Make sure to check all photos before purchasing.‼️

A STORYBOOK, TRANSLATED INTO SILK.

What happens when one of the world’s biggest luxury houses hands its silk to a children’s book illustrator?

You get something that feels less like a Gucci print — and more like a page from a strange storybook.

For “Ouverture of Something That Never Ended,” Alessandro Michele invited British illustrator Freya Hartas into the Gucci universe.

Hartas was not a traditional fashion collaborator.

Her world was built around picture books, humorous animals, monsters, dark fairy tales and imaginary landscapes — influenced by everything from Tove Jansson and Studio Ghibli to vintage natural-history illustrations and tiny woodland creatures.

Gucci gave those creatures a completely different canvas:

Italian silk.

The result was a series of mythically-inspired animals scattered across Gucci garments — squirrels, strange birds and almost storybook-like creatures, sometimes joined by playful distortions of the House identity itself.

On this bomber, the print unfolds across 100% silk in deep turquoise and ivory, framed by a pointed collar, gold-tone hardware and an elasticated blouson silhouette.

Look closely and the GUCCI name is there.

But it almost feels incidental.

The illustration comes first.

And that is exactly what makes the collaboration interesting.

This piece belongs to Ouverture of Something That Never Ended, the collection Gucci unveiled not through a conventional runway show, but through a seven-part cinematic project co-directed by Alessandro Michele and Gus Van Sant.

Filmed around Rome and featuring appearances from Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Florence Welch, Jeremy O. Harris and others, Ouverture represented Michele at perhaps his most experimental — questioning seasons, reworking Gucci’s past and treating fashion as part clothing, part cinema, part fantasy.

Freya Hartas fit perfectly into that world.

A children’s illustrator inside a century-old Italian luxury house.

Mythical creatures on silk.

Humor beside craftsmanship.

Something intentionally beautiful, slightly strange and impossible to mistake for ordinary Gucci.

In 2021, PAUSE Magazine described this exact bomber as “wearable art.”

Five years later, that description makes even more sense.

Because pieces like this are beginning to exist outside the cycle they were originally designed for.

Not simply as seasonal Gucci.

But as documents of a very specific chapter:

the Alessandro Michele era.

GUCCI × FREYA HARTAS
OUVERTURE, 2021
100% SILK
MADE IN ITALY