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MILAN Roger Clemens Jersey , Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- ""Excellent, unusual, fantastic and stylish"" was how jewellery designer Yana Raskovalova described the Gucci new fall-winter collection presented at the fashion week running from Wednesday to Monday here.


The new creative director at the Florence-based luxury brand, Alessandro Michele, impressed buyers and critics at the show with an eccentric mix of styles, from ripped denim shirts and renaissance jackets to rich brocaded coats and a light blue see-through tulle gown with balloon sleeves.


A massive handbag with a redesigned Gucci logo, the trademark iconic loafers, high wedges, tiny hats with veils and oversized eyeglasses were among the collection's accessories.


""I found the show very touching, a variety of different epochs that blend one into each other, where the present, the past but also the future mix all together,"" Giusi Ferre, a renowned fashion journalist in Italy, told Xinhua shortly after the show.


The general feeling was that of an almost heartbreaking spectacle which opened like a box of amazing creations, she said, describing the show as being like a journey towards a new planet, with a mix of nature and technology, music and color.


""My impression was that of a very young collection, full of freshness and new ideas, which I find right because Gucci has nearly 100 years of history and I think it needs to keep young,"" Ferre highlighted.


Italy's leading economic newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore wrote that Gucci last year posted revenues of nearly 3.9 billion euros (4.29 billion U.S. dollars), up 0.4 percent, ending a stream of negative results.


The new CEO of Gucci, Marco Bizzarri, who was named at the end of 2014, said the results of the brand -- which was founded in Florence in 1921 and is now owned by French parent company Kering -- needed to give a clear signal of ""recovery, leadership and market share.""


The 2015 results -- acceleration in the fourth quarter and the double-digit growth -- were ""an acknowledgment of the courage and contemporary vision of Alessandro Michele,"" Bizzarri was quoted by Il Sole 24 Ore as saying.


Stephanie Broek, a fashion features editor at Glamour magazine, told Xinhua: ""I have always appreciated Gucci's capacity for being really elegant, but also young at the same time,"" she added.