In text messages between Michele and Gvasalia, which were posted to Gucci’s Instagram Story, the two talk about missing in-person fashion shows and the importance of the 100-year-old brand. Gvasalia even remembers, in the ’90s, buying a tiny sample bottle of Gucci Envy perfume because, according to him, it was the only thing he could get in post-USSR Georgia where he’s from. “I actually still have at home,” he writes.

By: Shannon Carlin