Nettspend, Fakemink, and EsDeeKid Enter the House of Gucci
The same sentiment extended to the celebs in the front row, where another viral English rapper, EsDeeKid—the masked Liverpudlian Timothée Chalamet lookalike himself—sat with an enormous croc-leather Gucci bag that he joked was “full of weed.” Demna, a perennial excavator of the zeitgeist, was tapping into a new wave; according to a New York Times interview that was published yesterday, the designer discovered the likes of Mink and EsDee from his Spotify algorithm. “The thing is there are a lot of people on the runway and also in the audience today that I listen to their music, I consume their art,” Demna told my colleague, Samuel Hine, backstage. “I really like what they do and I feel like one of my responsibilities at Gucci is also trying to bring the cultural relevance to it and the cultural relevance always comes from underground culture, not from mainstream, even for a big brand. And I felt like it made sense for me to build my vision and starting to create this Gucci community including these people.” Liverpudlian …
