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Gucci's Fabulous Queen of the Damned
By Godfrey Deeny
Photos by: Gruber-FWD
MILAN, Mar 5, 2002/ FWD/ --- Gucci girls will be Anne Rice-fab this autumn - and they'll
be making maidens all over the world want to be sinful too.
Tom Ford went Goth in Gucci's Fall 2002 collection shown in Milan this Saturday, with a
powerful look that broke plenty of new fashion terrain both in clothing and accessories.
The models, prepared with eye-shadow so dark they looked like they were coming down off a
bender, strutted out to party down with their favorite rock band post concert somewhere
between Tokyo and Texas.
Think a very high-end, super-chic, Chrissie Hynde.
You could also call it a fabulous rich bitch look.
Italian daily La Stampa was even more explicit in its early Sunday edition, by writing:
"Beautiful and damned, dark from head to toe, but also within. Summed up, a real bastard."
Whatever. The key thing was the collection had great clothes and powerful spirit.
Attired with leather necklaces and crosses and done up with shaggy hair, suggestive of a
Cristal fuelled party in the rock god's suite, the models strutted out onto the white fake
fur catwalk with a contemptuous air.
Well, not quite - one beginner fell twice, leading her to grumpily take off her heels,
an action that drew applause from the buzzed ladies in the audience.
"A little bit of Goth at Gucci!" smiled Ford backstage, adding an exclamation point as he
repeated back the same phrase a critic had posed as a question.
Packed with pencil-thin pants under widely cut jackets, the completely mono-color collection
had a Japanese air, helped by wide Geisha girl waistbands under thin coiled leather belts.
Artisanal skill was greatly in evidence in some very inventive coats, which came in a melange
of fur, intreciato, ribbons and cashmere.
The next best-selling bags fought for attention, among them a super-black crocodile
doctor's-style bag with wooden handles, whose clasp was the reptile's tail.
The finale was a score of skimpy, silk dresses in brown and black, which were a great tribute
to Italian workmanship, not to mention pretty damned sexy.
They came slashed, ripped up and tasseled but never looked trashy or vintage, just hot.
They were a bit repetitive, indeed, but Gucci's show was not.
It was new, clever, sexy, and brilliantly commercial. Signature Tom Ford.
Gucci
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