The European flag is a pastiche, with the 12 stars replaced by text, and there is no mention of the European Central Bank (ECB) or its president's signature.
Gucci's website says: "A pastiche of different influences that span across decades, the Cruise 2019 collection references old school shapes and materials inspired by vintage sportswear.
An exemplary act of what some of us would learn, in college a few years later, to identify as the distinctive postmodern aesthetic strategy of pastiche.