Gucci Glamour

"Gucci, Gucci, Gucci"
Madonna

Setting: The 1990s

The place to be: Any Gucci Boutique

What to wear: Gucci, Gucci, Gucci...

1990s Tom Ford for Gucci.  Everyone was giddy, crazy and obsessed with Tom Ford for Gucci.  I HAD TO HAVE the slinky snakeprint dress with the then crazy expensive $2000 plus pink Swarovski crystal shoes - and have them I do.  Patience is a virtue.  I eventually bought the shoes for $250 and the dress for $99 at the Gucci outlet : )

Those wild and crazy early years of Tom Ford at Gucci were glamorous and happy.  It wasn't intellectual.  It was just clothes that were exciting and made you excited to shop.  It was a mood: you could hear clinks of ice in a cocktail or "Racquel Welch, circa 1968, beating eggs, making your breakfast" (how Amy M. Spindler drescribed the Gucci 1995 Fall collection).

So I am thrilled to have these swirly, heavily beaded, super glamorous Tom Ford for Gucci low slung beaded pants at RARE vintage and they look amazing!

Tom Ford for Gucci beaded pants.  1990s.  Available for purchase at RARE vintage.

love, kisses and I want Raquel Welch to scramble me some eggs too, Juliana

Naughty and Nice: Tom Ford for Gucci

Leather, lace and the allusion of nudity.  Tom Ford feeling naughty and nice for this spectacular gown for Gucci Fall 1999.

RARE vintage for Resort: Tom Ford for Gucci

Shimmer and shine this holiday season in a Tom Ford for Gucci Fall 2000 halter neck dress.

Who's The Man?

Tom Ford is The Man.  Watch him this Sunday on Oprah's OWN network.  While you are watching the preview, I am going to check my 10,000,000+ channels and see if I even have OWN...

Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind with Tom Ford

Sunday, October 23rd on OWN at 8PM

@RareVintageNYC: Friday Favorites

I love the whimsical Krizia animal print sweaters I bought in Italy for RARE vintage and I confess that I kept one and it is my new #FF@RareVintageNYC Friday favorite.  I have been impatiently waiting for the weather to get cool enough to put it on.    And hallelujah, that day has arrived!

It is always fascinating to see how trendy vintage can be while not being trendy at all; the word is timeless. Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga and Ricardo Tisci for Givenchy may have gotten everyone in the mood for animal prints again but Krizia was the original wild child with animal instincts.

I am feeling very Gaga as you can see: no pants!

Panther sweater: 1980s Krizia Sunglasses: Tom Ford

Tom Ford: I Want Your Sex!

When I met Tom Ford recently I was seduced by his masculinity and his smoky sexiness.  I heard ice clinking in my vintage Baccarat cocktail glass, I tasted oysters on the half shell and I was dressed in a teeny tiny sheer black Gucci bra and thong adorned with tiny diamantee GGs.  Okay don't ask.  I know what you are thinking but don't ask...   Some designers make you feel at your most feminine, your most princess-y, your most cool, futuristic chic.  Tom Ford makes you feel hot and bothered. Honey, pass the ice cold martini because it's hot in here!

Whew!  Okay, I almost forgot what I was writing about.  Tom Ford for Gucci changed the way we dressed and thought about fashion.  He was and is brilliant.  A rare talent.

This is a black leather fitted dress with brilliant seaming which molds to the body from Spring 2001.  Can be worn with optional bra-like straps.  Belt fits low on the waist.  Runway collection.

Leather is deliciously soft...

Photo from Style.com

And just to put you in the mood for a little sex...

Spring 2001 Tom Ford for Gucci Black Leather Dress.  Size 4/6

PURCHASE

INQUIRY

The Glam and the Glamorous from New York

New York Spring 2008 Fashion Week has begun. We started last night at Tom Ford's very elegant and refined men's store on Madison Avenue for a book party honoring Marilyn Minter's new monograph. We love how thorough Tom Ford is: the traffic cones outside the store were painted white (but, of course, no vulgar orange neon cones here!) and all of the waiters had slicked side parted hair - very 1930's slightly sinister movie actor.

Today we were at FIT's Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion honoring Alber Elbaz. We have long admired Mr. Elbaz's talents from the time he started at Guy Laroche, went on to YSL and now at Lanvin. He gave a very beautiful, thoughtful, funny and extremely kind speech. What he said about women, aging and the pursuit of perfection should be published in every magazine. I think everyone there wanted to give him a hug!

And can we just say how beautiful Demi Moore is in person?

Now down to what Fashion week is really all about: the fashion!


RARE vintage has two beautiful gowns from two New York designers.

The glam is a 1975 Norma Kamali jersey dress in dusty rose. The label is Kamali New York and predates her OMO Norma Kamali line. This is when she had a store on Madison Avenue. It is a very sexy one shoulder body revealing gown. The train can be worn down or there is a loop for your finger in case you want to dance like you were at Studio 54! Size 4. SOLD




The glamorous is a Scaasi Boutique from the 1980s. It is a strapless silk gown with voided velvet flowers that drapes very seductively around the body ending in a stiff tulle underskirt. But best of all are the enormous black silk bows running down the back. Size 4/6.


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