What I am doubting is that it's original to either of them.
I am new here and do not wish to be aggravating, bu this discussion reminds me of something that Louis B. Mayer or someone like this said about the movie business: "there have only ever been eight movies ever made." So, the only thing for the filmmaker is to make the same movie revisted, revised, and updated, with more humor or less, more drama or less, and so on, and to create a film, that whether it moves one to great laughter or huge tears, changes the way some moment is perceived. And that after, she is happy or at least satisfied to have experieneced this film.
I think the commercial fashion business is something like this: there are only so many ways to cut a dress or a skirt or trousers or a jacket, so the basics are simply there. The thing for the designer is to give us the essentials of each piece and to use her creativity in revisiting, revising, and updating with more or less fabric, different colors, and more or less detailing, and so on, so to change the way this dress, or skirt, or trousers are perceived. And importantly, so that she wishes to buy and wear this clothing, and is happy in doing so.
Of course Frida was influenced by Tom, and the great history he established with Gucci, and there were influences from Versace, and I also detected a bit of Narciso in one or two of the looks. But what matters most to me is that with this collection, Frida has finally settled on a point of view and vision of the modern, accessable, and very busy Gucci woman for 2010 that spoke to me, and to women, and if I had the loot, would wear almost every item happily. I think the collection was a huge hit, and I am happy for her also.
(it's also my fav. dress)
