Despite Alessandro Michele's approach to designing whimsical, costume-like runway looks for Gucci [1], the collections usually include a few street style statement pieces that become hits. Of course, given Gucci's current status in the fashion industry — the brand recently faced backlash for its blackface designs [2] and has landed in hot water for cultural appropriation in the past, namely when turbans were sent down the Fall 2018 runway [3] — it's impossible to know what will stick. But it may not come as a surprise that the one accessory that stood out at the Milan Fall 2019 fashion show [4] was the sneakers.
Models carried them like roller blades they were set on switching into after they kicked off their platforms. The shape is a little more simple than a chunky dad trainer [5], and it comes with grey laces, a mesh upper, and a retro, metallic flash. The "G" logo has been manipulated with a sporty update. You might have found these tennis shoes in your grandpa's garage as a kid and thought, "Hey, these are kinda neat!" But will they make their way onto the feet of bloggers and front-row celebrities [6] soon? All we know for sure is that they were impossible to miss.
