Final Friday, Gucci launched Who’s Sabato De Sarno? A Gucci Story. The documentary is narrated by Gucci ambassador and future Ridley Scott gladiator Paul Mescal and directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost of Paranormal Exercise 3 (and 4) fame. It has a 20-minute run-time and might be obtainable to stream on Mubi. (When you’re there, make certain to take a look at Ira Sachs’s good Passages.) In keeping with a press launch, Gucci plans to host screenings of the brief movie in “main cities across the globe,” and also will provide it on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Have you ever dreamed of being behind the scenes forward of a Gucci present with Paul Mescal whispering in your ear? Nicely, now’s your likelihood.

The movie not solely introduces De Sarno, but additionally the forged of characters who are actually a part of his Gucci group. It’s set within the lead-up to his debut runway present in September of final yr. There’s Alastair McKimm, who types the collections, and there’s Mark Ronson, who produced the debut soundtrack. And there are cameos by De Sarno’s family and friends, a plethora of celebrities from Mescal to Ryan Gosling and Julia Roberts to the various others who attended the present, and likewise members of the Gucci group.

I watched the mini-doc to see what De Sarno and Gucci have been as much as. Right here’s what I realized in regards to the designer.

• Sabato De Sarno was born in Cicciano, simply outdoors of Naples in 1983.
• He invited his mother and father and 90 of his shut family and friends to take a seat entrance row at his debut present. “They arrive for me, not for the inventive director and never for Gucci,” he says, “they arrive for Sabato.”
• He was named Sabato after his grandfather, who was a cobbler. The identify means “Saturday,” which the designer says folks used to joke about. “Is your mom known as Monday, is your father Tuesday?”
• De Sarno and his dachshund, Luce, are a bundle deal. He’s not often seen with out his canine, and retains treats for him on the Gucci HQ.
• De Sarno spent his profession working behind the scenes. “I’m not born a inventive director, I used to be a design director, an assistant, an assistant’s assistant. I do know the method, no?”

• He noticed a thousand fashions in six cities over eight weeks to forged simply 55 new “contemporary” faces for his debut present.
• De Sarno strikes quick. “He’s at all times in a rush and he hates to attend,” says Franceso Mari, a marketing consultant at Gucci. A enjoyable reality: The designer as soon as changed his espresso machine for one more that was 5 seconds quicker. “I feel different persons are sluggish,” he says. (He appears like he’d actually love New York.)
• He works exhausting and performs exhausting. De Sarno is described as a celebration boy, and is continually seen dancing.

• De Sarno loves the French phrase “fil rouge,” which interprets to “purple string” in reference to the favored “widespread thread” metaphor. His fil rouge is what connects the Gucci archive via the years. When he first visited the archive, he gravitated in the direction of a purple Jackie bag, the liner of which was a deeper shade of purple. And thus, Ancora Crimson was born.
• He loves phrases. His debut assortment, after all, was related to the Italian phrase “ancora,” which the designer defines as “one thing that you just love and nonetheless need to love.”

• “Sabato stays zen.” He’s cool and picked up—for essentially the most half. When his present needed to be relocated indoors resulting from wet climate, he remained calm. “Actually, it’s okay,” he mentioned, “a very powerful factor for this occasion is the gathering.”
• However he’s nonetheless an emotional individual. He shed a few tears throughout his last rehearsal, fascinated by what his mother and father would consider the particular second. “It’s tough to manage the feelings, however possibly I don’t need to management it,” he says.