Gucci Uomo S/S 05

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[PrinceOfCats]

Not too bad...unimpressive though...the wingtips are foul - almost as bad as when Ford did them. Some people need to get a grip on what makes a man though Carrying a bag or wearing a silk gown is hardly going to make his manhood drop off and disintergrate....

 

[Acid]

Originally posted by PrinceOfCats@Jun 30th, 2004 - 1:18 pm
Some people need to get a grip on what makes a man though Carrying a bag or wearing a silk gown is hardly going to make his manhood drop off and disintergrate....

exactly......
plus everything is going towards unisex anyway...because it rocks

 

[Plumour]

the bags are nice

 

[Reece]

I like it, alot more than some of Tom's creations.

 

[prixi]

Not bad. But of course, I prefer Tom..
A bit too feminine, I'd say..what man wants to *sashay* around in a flowy silk gown ?

 

[stylegurrl]

Master's eye is sorely missed in Gucci's first post-Ford collection
By James Sherwood
30 June 2004


The House of Gucci last night showed its first catwalk collection since the departure of its creative director Tom Ford.

The Milan menswear show for spring/summer 2005 is the first glimpse of Gucci's future after the regime change in April. For almost a decade Tom Ford has set the fashion world on fire with glamorous, retro-sexy Gucci collections that took the house back to its Studio 54 disco days.

Under the patriarchal eye of Domenico De Sole, the Gucci group acquired a stable of va-va-voom luxury labels such as Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga. Ford and De Sole were the architects who built this luxury goods empire to rival LVMH. Their departure in a boardroom coup leaves very large suede loafers to fill.

The fashion industry was understandably sceptical at the appointment of Robert Polet as Gucci CEO: a former president of Unilever's frozen food and ice cream division. Less surprising was the promotion of the Gucci menswear designer John Ray to creative director. The Scottish-born, Central Saint Martins-trained designer was deemed a safe pair of hands. He has been part of the Gucci family since 1996 and it had been rumoured that he was the workhorse while Tom added the finishing touches.

As a declaration of business as usual, Gucci chose to show at their usual venue. Champagne cocktails were served by black-clad, chiselled cheekboned waiters straight out of Central Casting. The show opened in mellow mood with ecru tunic tops embroidered with Indian silks.

Out stomped the buff boys in brief, brief swimming trunks with gold Gucci G buckles and leather trim. But line hammam robes looked more ethnic than Olympian. What can only be described as silk blouses with plunging scoop necks looked far too girlie for Gucci's core customer. Ivory and navy pinstripe suits had the sex appeal of Ford's Gucci but not with a butterfly print silk blouse beneath.

Whether Ford was a great stylist, editor or added crucial finishing touches, it is his sly eye and sexy grin that Gucci is missing this season.

 

[Deleted member 4737]

I have to wonder if anyone will ever be happy with the new designers...No, it isn't exactly what Tom might have shown, but it is very Gucci...It's only the first collection, and everyone makes mistakes...give the new guy a chance

...also...

Gucci menswear under Ford was never bohemian or artsy, which the embroidered tunics and caftans totally represent, and it was never about androgyny. Ford always put out classic, chic, sometimes elegant/sometimes sexed up clothes for men.

Don't you remember the Fall 2001 collection?...it had several bohemian and artsy influences...

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by Spike413@Jun 30th, 2004 - 12:58 am
, but it's not what I've come to know from Gucci, also, just not my style at all, too boho for me

spike...you're forgetting some of tom's work...i didtinctly remember using a peach embroidered gucci shirt for an album cover around 1997 that was from a very bohemian collection...the same year they did the low heel pointy toe snakeskin boot for women...gucci USED to be much more bohemian...and the origiinal women's collections had caftans...(thanks to amanda harlech...not tom ford)...

so i think this is actually quite a beautiful and soft menswear collection...romantic and proud...a man not afraid of his feminine side...secure in his masculinity...i think it's uber sexy...hot!...


but you know i love that boho look...

 

[JRSlims]

I think its great... the team working is exactly the same team that made the last collections... there´s nothing new... maybe too risky by using the butterfly prints.. maybe they should do as Costa in calvin klein...

the whole collection is nice... beautiful single pieces but a little bit disconnected between them... too many ideas in just one collection...

 

[Acid]

Originally posted by stylegurrl@Jun 30th, 2004 - 3:08 pm
Whether Ford was a great stylist, editor or added crucial finishing touches, it is his sly eye and sexy grin that Gucci is missing this season.

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and it was Ford's sly eye and sexy grin that made the other half of us want to puke

 

[softgrey]

Originally posted by Acid@Jun 30th, 2004 - 11:20 am

Whether Ford was a great stylist, editor or added crucial finishing touches, it is his sly eye and sexy grin that Gucci is missing this season.

and it was Ford's sly eye and sexy grin that made the other half of us want to puke [/quote]
hahaha... ...so true...

 

[faust]

Originally posted by Acid@Jun 30th, 2004 - 11:20 am

Whether Ford was a great stylist, editor or added crucial finishing touches, it is his sly eye and sexy grin that Gucci is missing this season.

and it was Ford's sly eye and sexy grin that made the other half of us want to puke [/quote]

 

[clay]

I think this is very much in line with Tom's Gucci. Loved the wingtips also. I like his shoulder on his jackets also, i tried a similar look for a client and he hated it, I thought was cool. The Butterflies, get rid of. Other than that, the tunics were cool also( i spent a lot of time in Dubai and India and i thought they were cool).
Yes the stuff is sexy, but the guy, i mean the real Gucci guy is probably a sexy MF, anyway. I do not see a femenine side to this except the bathing suits, which I would not wear, but hey I am not the typical sexy Gucci guy, i am sure he will love it.

I say not a bad for following in Tom's footsteps.

 

[Lena]

Originally posted by Acid@Jun 30th, 2004 - 5:20 pm

=stylegurrl,Jun 30th, 2004 - 3:08 pm] Whether Ford was a great stylist, editor or added crucial finishing touches, it is his sly eye and sexy grin that Gucci is missing this season.

and it was Ford's sly eye and sexy grin that made the other half of us want to puke

right on

 

[Spike413]

The thing that's really bothering me is the feminine side. I don't have a problem at all with men embracing it when it comes to fashion. And of course, Tom had his boho moments, though they were few and far between. But the whole feminine air of the collection is exactly what isn't Gucci about it. While Tom used feminine touches like sheer fabrics and some occasional embelleshment on the garments, it was never this literal. Not that I'm dissing the collection for that, it's not at all a bad collection, but to me Gucci was always about masculinity, no frills so to speek, slick, simple, and sexy......this didn't really have any of that. While Ford's more recent womens collections began to show more embellestment and glitz, his men's collections always maintained the feeling of simplicity. Especially in his more recent collections, starting with f/w 2002, he really concentrated more on dressing chic, dapper men rather then the sexed up rock star boys of early years. But this doesn't even remind me of those rocker moments of the past, I dunno, just not Gucci to me, not what I've come to think of when I think Gucci Uomo.

 

[Spike413]

So, will those be sold next spring? *hubba hubba*