“But it would have been cooler had the designer added another layer of reference — a truly grungy, Dennis Cooper element — by remembering that it was River Phoenix who was originally supposed to play Rimbaud, a plan that fell apart when Mr. Phoenix collapsed and died of drug-induced heart failure outside the Viper Room in Los Angeles in 1993. That would have goosed the collection along with some truly tragic romance.”

- Guy Trebay on the Gucci Fall 2012 collection that Frida Giannini showed, supposedly inspired by “Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud in love/hate with Paul Verlaine as interpreted by Leonardo DiCaprio in Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 film “Total Eclipse.”