Alessandro Michele’s Valentino debut signaled a transformation, with a stage set like a living room in flux, evoking a sense of renewal.

The fashion palate cleanser of the season: white.

The post-pandemic surge in global sales of luxury handbags, shoes and apparel is on pace to stall this year amid a creativity crisis and price hikes focused on the biggest spending customers.

It’s been creative director musical chairs at some of Italy’s top fashion houses, and the pressure is showing, at least on social media.

Luxury Italian fashion house Gucci has brought glitz and glamor to London's Tate Moden museum with a star-studded cruise collection show.

The former Gucci designer Alessandro Michele has been named the new creative director at Valentino, following the sudden departure last week of Pierpaolo Piccioli after 25 years.

Hot off the Taylor Swift’s red-carpet triumph for Gucci in glittering green, the Italian brand’s creative director Sabato De Sarno plunged into his menswear debut on the first day of Milan Fashion Week with somewhat shimmery, slightly subversive classics.

Taylor Swift stunned in liquid acid green as the fashion parade that marks awards season kicked off Sunday in Beverly Hills at the Golden Globes.

Sabato De Sarno wants people to fall in love with Gucci again, titling his debut collection “Gucci Ancora,” Italian for “Gucci Again.”.

The president and CEO of Gucci is stepping down later this year.

A new documentary that is expected to head to a streaming service later this year recounts the birth of Italian ready-to-wear, giving Giorgio Armani due credit for putting Milan on the fashion world map.

Milan designers have tapped female power on the third day of Milan Fashion Week, previewing collections for next fall and winter.

Gucci returns to the Milan menswear runway with the brand's first collection since Alessandro Michele stepped down as creative director.

Harry Styles will never be just a singer-songwriter, he's now an actor and a fashion powerhouse as well.

There was a massive counterfeit of goods bust involving purses, sunglasses, and other merchandise with brand names like Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Versace. The items weren’t authentic, and now several people face charges in a big counterfeiting bust.

Jessica Chastain hit the Oscars red carpet in a purple and copper sparkle gown Sunday.

The COVID pandemic has had a big impact on the landscape of Downtown Detroit.

Annual tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took a controversial turn in the Port Huron Area School District this week.

If there is one thing for certain, it’s that this year’s holiday season has way more options for movies to see in theaters than in 2020.

A Gucci fashion show in Los Angeles Tuesday night was such a spectacle that Hollywood Boulevard had to shut down to make room for all the stars.

Gucci has launched an e-commerce site featuring refurbished vintage Gucci pieces alongside capsule collections by young designers chosen by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele.

Gucci has launched an e-commerce site featuring refurbished vintage Gucci pieces alongside capsule collections by young designers chosen by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele.

Anyone whose virtual alter ego is wandering around the Roblox online game platform these days might run into other avatars sporting Gucci handbags, sunglasses or hats.

Creative director Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in 6½ years at the helm of the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago.

Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele is celebrating the fashion house’s 100th anniversary this year, giving historic sweep to a collection unveiled virtually Thursday.

Doja Cat arrives at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Sunday, March 14, 2021. He was on hand in person but earlier created an Instagram red carpet moment with his daughter since no kids were allowed at the Los Angeles show. “I actually created a step and repeat and a red carpet,” she told reporters during a virtual news conference before the show. AdDue to pandemic precautions, the “red carpet” was not the usual mass of cameras and TV crews. AdAll three wore Gucci.

DETROIT – A mega-designer brand is getting some much-needed schooling from Detroit high school students. After a slip-up caused a storm of bad publicity, Gucci partnered with Cass Technical High School for a long-lasting relationship that will change cultural perceptions. In the spring of 2019, the luxury brand Gucci released a sweater that received backlash over its use of blackface. During this time, Gucci looked at Cass Tech in Detroit. AdIt turned into an opportunity for both Gucci and Cass Tech as meetings with students and collaborations have continued through the pandemic.

(AP Photo/Pamela Hassell)Here’s what’s happening Saturday with the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.:THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY— The coronavirus surge is threatening to overwhelm hospitals in California. Five San Francisco Bay Area counties have new stay-at-home orders that will take effect Sunday. — Jobless Americans face a bleak predicament if Congress fails to extend two unemployment programs that are set to expire the day after Christmas. ICYMI: In Boise, Idaho, an urgent-care clinic has been revamped into a facility for coronavirus patients as infections and deaths surge, showing how a crush of virus patients is straining intertwined health care systems. ___Find AP’s full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic.

TROY, Mich. – Two dogs that were stolen Wednesday from a vehicle in Troy have been returned to their owners. The Pomeranians were purchased by a seller at a gas station and turned over to the Warren Police Department. The dogs -- named Gucci and Chanel -- were reported stolen from the car parked at the curbside pickup of Michaels on John R and 14 Mile roads. You can watch the original report in the video below. View more: Oakland County news

Local 4 Style Editor Jon Jordan has some tips for re-purposing what you already own to follow some of the trendiest looks of 2020. Inspired by recent runway looks, Jordan has a few ideas on how to bring metallics into your wardrobe. You can get the look yourself by taking inspiration from his work with just some sharpies and a cloth bag. Jordan said his favorite hack was to borrow some style designs from Gucci, who is known for their fur-lined slippers. He said you can replicate the look on a budget with some faux fur from the craft store and an old pair of shoes.

Pedestrians pass by a screen showing a Versace model, during the Milan Digital Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, July 16, 2020. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)MILAN The coronavirus-provoked fashion runway rethink was in full swing on the last day of Milans first Digital Fashion Week. Ermengildo Zegnas so-called Phygital presentation was a hybrid of physical and digital experiences that could be the harbinger for runway shows to come for the brand celebrating 110 years. Gucci, meanwhile, has already announced that it will eschew destination runway shows and whittle down its calendar to two events a year, in a bid for prudence. And this is my experiment.The digital experiment this fashion week -- conceived out of epidemiological necessity -- had the effect of emphasizing the absence of energy normally generated by the live shows.

FILE - In this Feb.25, 2020 file photo, model Kaia Gerber leads other models as they wear creations for the Saint Laurent fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris. The coronavirus lockdown -- which has hit luxury fashion houses on their bottom lines -- has also given pause to rethink the pace of fashion. The coronavirus lockdown, which has hit luxury fashion houses on their bottom lines, has also given pause to rethink the pace of fashion, offering the possibility to return to less hectic, more considered periods of creativity and production and perhaps consumption. Armani also has called for a major rethink of changes in luxury fashion during his 45 years as a stalwart of Milan fashion. The Italian Fashion Chamber is promoting three days of online presentation of mens and womens collections in July to substitute the regular June calendar.

Nine News via CNN(CNN) - There's a new hero in the Australian city of Sydney -- Gucci the Pomeranian, who saved her owner from a house fire Monday night. With the help of his neighbors, Rutonski and Gucci made it out safely as the house continued to burn. Rutonski, 58, was taken to the hospital to check for smoke inhalation, and credits Gucci with saving his life. "As they say, man's best friend is his dog," Rutonski told Seven News. Most of the house, which Rutonski was renting, has been destroyed, with the roof partially collapsed, Nine News reported.

Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Entertainment(CNN) - Last month, fashion house Chanel appointed its first head of diversity and inclusion. But what they collectively reveal is that the fashion industry is struggling -- at times -- to keep up with tech-savvy consumers who are ready to call out companies in real-time for insensitive imagery. In 2018, The Business of Fashion found diversity to be lacking at the highest levels of leadership after studying 15 of the largest public companies in fashion. Take the snarky Diet Prada, an Instagram account (with a cult following of 1.5 million "Dieters") that calls out copycat scandals and hypocrisy in the fashion industry. "The (American) fashion industry ... has so far struggled to reflect the country's diversity in its workforce across all levels," the briefing stated.

Scott Barbour/Getty Images(CNN) - Gucci has hired a new person to oversee its diversity and inclusion efforts following the disastrous publicity it received for selling a racist sweater. The Italian fashion house announced Tuesday that it has hired Rene Tirado as its new global head of diversity, equity and inclusion. Tirado will be in charge of designing and implementing a new strategy to "create a more inclusive and equitable workplace and increase workforce diversity," Gucci said in a release. Gucci apologized, saying in a statement at the time that it's "fully committed to increasing diversity throughout our organization and turning this incident into a powerful learning moment for the Gucci team and beyond." "As a learning organization, we have challenged ourselves over the last few months to accelerate our vision to develop a stronger organization."

Claudio Villa/Getty Images(CNN) - Italian airline Alitalia has apologized for a promotional video that featured an actor in blackface portraying former US President Barack Obama. The airline has removed the video and apologized after receiving a flood of complaints. "Alitalia deeply apologizes for the offense caused by the promotional video on our Washington route," tweeted Alitalia. "This @Alitalia video showcasing a silent blackfaced "Obama" is reprehensive on so many levels: racism, extreme provincialism, willful ignorance of facts, lack of historic knowledge," tweeted one user. In February, Italian fashion house Gucci apologized and discontinued a sweater that social media users said resembles blackface because of its design.