The outré pieces to buy now.

Since his appointment as creative director of Gucci back in 2015, Mr Alessandro Michele has been working overtime to bring the high-end Italian brand into the future, and through his bold designs has pushed the envelope of what we’ve come to expect from a luxury fashion house. Mr Michele is also consistent – usually, the hype around designers runs in peaks and troughs, but somehow Mr Michele ensures that the good stuff keeps coming. He has redesigned Gucci logos that had been appropriated to make fakes and bootlegs (see the “GUCCY” logos on some of this season’s sweaters) but cut them from high-quality fabrics in great designs to bring them back full circle into high fashion.

Below you’ll find our pick of some of the new Gucci items that have just landed on MR PORTER. It’s a vibrant mixture of colours, logos and styles that show the brand off at its best. The 1980s-inspired camp-collar shirt printed with a rainbow of roaring panthers, for instance, is rendered in soft silk twill, and will look incredible layered over a white T-shirt – try the one from the brand that is emblazoned with the 1980s Gucci logo, and finished with a crystal-embellished rabbit. Animals are also a major running theme in recent collections – you’ll find chenille appliques of a pig alongside a bottle of soda and some dice on a denim jacket (complete with a camel corduroy collar), or a black shark on a rather cinematic petrol station-style shirt.

That might sound like, well, a lot, and this isn’t the kind of stuff you can wear half-heartedly. But why would you want to? Wearing Mr Michele’s Gucci might not look like it’s appropriate for the sartorial wallflower (the panther shirt is particularly shouty after all), but these are the kind of clothes than come imbued with a kind of ready-made confidence. And that’s something we could all do with a bit more of when getting dressed.