Tom Ford has been showered with design awards in recent
years, including 3 awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of
America, 5 VH1/ Vogue Fashion Awards, British
GQ International Man of the Year, and Designer of the Year
by GQ America.
Bridget Foley has always loved storytelling. She's the
author of several screenplays and is often featured on annual
industry best-of lists.
Anna Wintour is the editor of American Vogue.
Graydon Carter has been the editor-in-chief
of Vanity Fair since 1992. Previously, he was the editor
of The New York Observer and the cofounder of Spy.
He is the producer of the acclaimed film The Kid Stays in the
Picture and the executive producer of the Emmy- and Peabody
Award-winning documentary 9/11. He lives in New York.
"This huge, slipcased Festschrift checks in at 11"×14", and covers
each of the Gucci years individually, compiling product shots, ads,
runway candids, snippets of Ford wisdom ("I think you have to have
personality at a brand—otherwise, it's just clothes"),
Gucci-sporting celebrities and commercial
stills. Vogue 's Anna Wintour and Vanity
Fair 's Graydon Carter contribute a foreword and introduction
respectively. The much-covered growth at Gucci and YSL are the real
story behind the book, to the point where the press chat credits
Ford with "carving out a new industry archetype: the businessman
designer." But the 375 color and bw photos, all culled from
existing fashion archives, is more of a look back at how Ford's
creations were presented (including year-by-year portraits of the
photogenic Ford himself), rather than what led to their creation,
how they were actually made or how they fit into the culture at
large. As a 10-year time capsule of brand fashioning, the book
succeeds perfectly."
—Publishers Weekly
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