- Publish Date: November 04, 2008
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Fashion
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Trim Size: 11 x 14
- Pages: 416
- US Price: $140.00
- CDN Price: $185.00
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-2669-8
"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 b&w 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
Author Bookshelf: Tom Ford
Author Bookshelf: Anna Wintour
Author Bookshelf: Graydon Carter
Author Bookshelf: Bridget Foley