What happens to a fashion house when its chief designer abruptly leaves?


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Models walk the runway during the Gucci collection show as part Milan Fashion Week. Photo: AFP

Ancora red is out; emerald green is in. Or so it seemed during the Gucci show at the opening of Milan Fashion Week, where it was as if Sabato De Sarno, the designer who abruptly left his job this month, had practically never even been there.

Fashion, it turns out, is fully capable of its own revisionist history. It’s that kind of moment.

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