Tom Ford an American fashion designer, filmmaker, perfumer, etc. Ford brings a hard-edged style synonymous with 21st century glamour to his clothes. He is a fashion icon and anything he touches makes lots of money for the fashion houses he manages. We just received a massive book on the history of his collections that highlights the best of Tom Ford’s years at Gucci and YSL.
Ford transformed Gucci from a dull seen its day accessories house into a powerhouse of fashion. In 1994 he took the dying fashion house and introduced velvet hip hip-huggers paired with skinny bright satin shirts. The images of model Amber Valletta and Madonna wearing these suggestive pieces are iconic to Ford’s collection.
In 1995, Ford, stylist French stylist Carine Roitfeld and photographer Mario Testino created an ad campaign that increased Gucci’s sales 90%. Tom Ford brought the almost bankrupt Gucci to be valued at $10 billion when he left in 1999. He went on to be Creative Director for YSL, created YSL fragrances like Opium with the usual sexualized ad, and his own White and Black Orchid scents.
This book is a complete catalog of Ford’s design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004 and was created with cooperation with Ford. It is Ford’s testament to a career full of reinventing the boundaries of style and sensuality in clothing.
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