Gucci campaign featuring its North Face collaboration for streetwear bible Highsnobiety. It doesn’t get more fashion than that.The images, shot by Ronan Gallagher, show Bourgeois as a train conductor, complete with Gucci uniform.
His stylish passengers – models Daniel Hopwood, Cheikh Tidiane Beye and Justina Law – are all clad in The North Face x Gucci merchandise.
The images have since gone viral, largely thanks to Bourgeois’s presence, making it a clever move on the luxury fashion label’s part.A post shared by Francis Bourgeois (@francis_bourgeois43)For Bourgeois though, this broad fan base and acceptance by the fashion community represents a kind of coming full circle.
In a video shared on Instagram last month, he detailed how he kept his love of trains a secret from his classmates when he started at a new secondary school in Frome, Somerset. “My favourite thing to do after school was to come home and play with my model railway,” he said. “But I realised I was experiencing feelings of loneliness so I decided to try and fit in a bit more at school.
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