Dua! Kate! Solange! The Hottest Arrivals at Gucci’s Tate Modern Show

Last night, Sabato De Sarno staged his first cruise presentation since joining Gucci in 2023 at the Tate Modern in London. Unforgiving in its industrial forms—the gallery is literally built on an old power plant—this was an explicit break from tradition for a brand that has previously invited fashion editors to the glittering environs of a mediaeval castle in Puglia and the Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. But unlike his predecessor Alesandro Michele—a folkloric scientist who will soon revolutionise Valentino—De Sarno is gesturing towards a grittier and perhaps more realistic interpretation of what Gucci means to people in 2024: a fact telegraphed in the pared-back nature of last night’s designs, which included mixed-wash denim pants, brothel creepers and workwear popovers in browns.

“I owe a lot to this city,” de Sarno explained in his accompanying show notes. “It has welcomed and listened to me.” That same thinking could also be attributed to the brand itself, which was born from a then-teenage Guccio Gucci’s experience of working in The Savoy as a porter back in 1899. “The Tate Modern is the perfect cross-section to narrate the city’s essence, with its great Turbine Hall that welcomes and gathers everyone, and with the Tanks, generators of ideas,” De Sarno continued. Among those “generators of ideas” were Solange Knowles, Kate and Lila Moss, Paul Mescal, Dua Lipa, Little Simz, Alexa Chung, with Mark Ronson, Kaytranada and Arca soundtracking a post-show celebration until the early hours of the morning in the gallery’s basement. Scroll through the gallery below to see a handful of the best-dressed guests on the frontlines of Gucci’s 2025 cruise catwalk.