"NEW HIPPY" GUCCI by Tom Ford 1999 by Fashion Channel
- 10 years ago
Tom Ford has brilliantly created a glamour ersatz hippie woman. The message being that there is no need to abandon materialism to join his hippie club. In fact, a strong regard for capitalism is virtually a requirement.
With this collection, for spring 1999, and his spring men's wear shown earlier this year, Tom Ford has made a sharp turn in the road he started down when he began reinventing Gucci in 1994. The women's show broached many of the same themes as his men's wear. A Gucci woman with cool to spare revels in a man-style gray locker-room T-shirt, paired with charcoal wool trousers with rhinestones and sequins.
Mr. Ford made tongue-in-chic use of hibiscus prints in loose, hipster trousers and flirty, ruffled dresses. It is not by accident that they appear to have been washed on the river rocks of a Hawaiian spring.
The designer produced an authoritative rendering of the cultural mix pervading fashion right now. He presented what might be called multicultural jeans -- pants that combine the Yankee Americana of faded blue denim, Native American-style brown feathers, South African Ndebele beading and Indian decorative mirrors.
With this collection, for spring 1999, and his spring men's wear shown earlier this year, Tom Ford has made a sharp turn in the road he started down when he began reinventing Gucci in 1994. The women's show broached many of the same themes as his men's wear. A Gucci woman with cool to spare revels in a man-style gray locker-room T-shirt, paired with charcoal wool trousers with rhinestones and sequins.
Mr. Ford made tongue-in-chic use of hibiscus prints in loose, hipster trousers and flirty, ruffled dresses. It is not by accident that they appear to have been washed on the river rocks of a Hawaiian spring.
The designer produced an authoritative rendering of the cultural mix pervading fashion right now. He presented what might be called multicultural jeans -- pants that combine the Yankee Americana of faded blue denim, Native American-style brown feathers, South African Ndebele beading and Indian decorative mirrors.