Bowling Shirt Oriental
| Bowling Shirt Oriental | |
|---|---|
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| Collection | Milady Maker |
| Category | Shirt |
| References | Gucci Roi Soleil print silk bowling shirt, ivory (SS19) |
| Count | 134 |
| Rarity | 1.34% |
Bowling Shirt Oriental is a shirt trait in the Milady Maker NFT collection, depicting a printed silk bowling shirt modelled after a Roi Soleil ("Sun King") print shirt produced by Gucci for its spring-summer 2019 collection under creative director Alessandro Michele.
Background
Alessandro Michele served as creative director of Gucci from 2015 to 2022, transforming the brand's aesthetic toward maximalist eclecticism drawing on art history, kitsch, and subcultural references. The SS19 collection featured silk bowling shirts in elaborate printed silk, including the Roi Soleil print — a pattern referencing the iconography of Louis XIV of France and Baroque solar imagery. The ivory colorway with orientalist decorative motifs combined Baroque European and East Asian visual sources in a characteristically Micheleian pastiche. Bowling shirts were a recurring format in Michele's Gucci output, recasting the workwear-derived silhouette as a vehicle for luxury print and archival reference.