Since the rise of Alessandro Michele some three years ago, street style has been an integral part of Gucci. Only, the Roman designer’s multi-faceted work isn’t rooted in the peacocks and posers you see outside fashion shows – even if that segment has now adopted his graphic aesthetic, too – but in authentic street style: the historical and contemporary characters of Italy and beyond, whom Michele grew up admiring in paintings and on the street. For his most recent capsule project, he called upon the young London-based illustrator Isabella Cotier in a meeting of likeminded everyday spectators. “I was working on a people-watching project in Florence, and he said, ‘Would you like to collaborate?’” Cotier recalled on Tuesday afternoon at the Gucci Museo in Florence where her illustrations now grace T-shirts and bags in the brilliant Gucci Gardengift shop, which opened last January.