A quieter gender fluidity marks Gucci’s return to the Milan runway

The designer best known for putting men in feminine clothes, now dresses women in masculine clothes

Gender fluidity is not just Harry Styles in a feather boa. It can also be a woman in an elegantly oversized double-breasted trouser suit, like the model who opened Gucci's first Milan fashion week show in two years.

Seven years ago I designed a menswear collection, and everyone told me I had invented gender fluidity," shrugged the designer Alessandro Michele backstage. I was like, my definition of masculinity is broad, OK?" (Funny, now, to recall the furore caused by a man in a pussy-bow blouse, as recently as 2015.)