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ALESSANDRO MICHELE’S office in Gucci’s new Milan headquarters seems like a playroom tricked out by doting parents for a child whose toys haven’t yet arrived. Dreamy custom wallpaper shows a blue-green forest scene based on one of the designer’s spring/summer 2016 prints for the fashion label. The desk, chairs and rugs are an eclectic assortment of threadbare European antiques, which Michele collects. But there is none of the designer’s flotsam: papers, books, sketches. All of that is in Rome, where Michele lives and works most…