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Imagine a train ride where the journey is as luxurious as the destination. This AI-generated concept for the Gucci Express offers an immersive experience filled with style, comfort and unforgettable moments. From the moment you step aboard, you’ll be transported into a world of opulence and adventure, all bathed in the beautiful hue of pink.
Welcome to the wonderful, wacky, imagination- and AI-filled world of Canada-based creative director Amar Alnemer, who I first featured on our main website a few days back. As I said then, remember the name, for his work is as intriguing as it is brilliant.
I chatted with Amar on LinkedIn after seeing one of his posts on the same platform dedicated to the rapidly accelerating convergence between luxury fashion brands and high-end culinary experiences.
The images accompanying his post (titled ‘A Louis Vuitton Concept of Brand Taste & Elegance on the go’) had me – and I suspect many others – fooled at first into thinking they were real.
Only when I read on did I realise he had created his own fusion of intellect, imagination and AI to come up with the visually stunning shots. You can read my reaction here.
Now Amar’s up to it again, creating the Gucci Pink Express. It’s about the journey, not the destination, the headline proclaims.
That reminds me of a line I often quote from the great American travel writer Paul Theroux (in his fine work ‘The Old Patagonian Express’) – “The journey’s the thing” – a four-word lament for the modern-day obsession with the destination rather than the old-fashioned love of getting there. Air travel as a process to be endured rather than enjoyed. A means to an end. A process.
I asked Amar if he might sprinkle a little of his magic on the world of airports. “Airports strike me as the ideal environment for the kind of crossover that you are writing about,” I wrote. “Maybe you take a hypothetical airport and say if I was in charge of the retail and dining proposition I would do this…”
“Sounds like a great concept,” Amar replied. “Let me give it some thought on the look and feel and how to brand it. But I love the idea. Very different. Especially if I was to build it.”
Different will likely be an understatement. Imagine heading from, say, downtown London on the Gucci Pink Express, getting through check-in and security and then arriving in an Amar-reimagined Heathrow. I doubt you would want to ever leave the airport. ✈
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