The Exotics of the House of Gucci

After a busy work schedule and working almost seven days a week, I have not been able to find time to update this blog.  However, what I did not realize was that I have constantly been posting on Facebook about my fashion wishlist.  Essentially, my Facebook wall became a mini-blog.  Now with that, I'm going to share with you my thoughts, rants and raves that I share on my social networks.  To start, I will talk about the posh luxuriousness of the House of Gucci!

Today, I visited the Gucci Boutique at South Coast Plaza for a little bit of retail therapy.  Though I did not purchase anything spectacularly grand or, for that matter, pricey, I was able to have a little fun eyeing the menswear, and, in particular, the ready-to-wear made of exotic leather.

Of all the high-end fashion houses that I have been exposed to, Gucci is one of the brands that revel in and offer a variety of items crafted with the luxuriousness of alligator, crocodile, eel, and ostrich leather, the plushness of mink fur, and the raciness of the python and snakeskin leather!  In addition to accessories made of the aforementioned materials, the leather jackets are also made of these unusual materials.

Even though I had no intentions of purchasing ready-to-wear jackets made of exotic skins (functionality, budget, and the important creepiness factor factored considerably in that decision), I figured I might as well see what they were like to have on.  

The first item I tried was this washed leather jacket made of pure ostrich leather worth $11,300.

 

If you look carefully at the jacket, you will see "bumps".  Those characteristic bumps are due to the large feathers of the ostrich.  It felt like I was touching goosebumps.  Wearing it felt like I was wearing any other leather jacket, except what I had on me was worth just as much as a car, a car that would get more mileage than this jacket would if ever I owned it.

When models are hired to wear outfits, it is the models job to not show how terrified they are if they are disturbed by the material of the outfit or what creature they have to pose with.  Although I have a phobia of snakes, I compartmentalized my fear and donned the following:

This is a $12,200 safari jacket made of python skin!  Although, again, it felt like any other leather jacket I've tried, the thought of having a dead snake on me made me feel slimy.  I cringed to my bone.

Despite it all, it was still fun to play model, albeit for ten minutes!