Object: Evening dress
Brand:
Gucci
(Italian, founded 1920)
Designer:
Tom Ford
(born 1961)
Date: Fall 1996
Medium: White matte jersey and gold metal
Country: Italy
Credit Line: Gift of Gucci
Object number: 97.30.1
DescriptionWhite matte jersey full length evening shift with plunging V-neck and long sleeves, clean finished in stitch and turn technique; matching contour belt with large hardware buckle in abstract design of interlocked gold metal loops
Label Text:The ever-present, often over-the-edge sex appeal of Tom Ford's style takes a more subtle form in this fluid, sensual evening gown. With this design, he looks back, emphatically not to the recent past - the unkempt, anti-fashion look of the early 1990s "grunge" era - but to his own youthful experiences, specifically his night life at Studio 54 in the 1970s. But with his skill for reinvention, Ford ultimately achieves a look that is modern and simply luxurious.
Exhibitions:
- Seduction
- Reinvention and Restlessness: Fashion in the Nineties
- 50 Years of Fashion, 1947 - 1997