Vintage Gucci Tom Ford Bag

Designers Description
A black knit leather Gucci bag, designed by Tom Ford. From the 1990s, this bag features a stylish woven black leather exterior, coupled with a black suede drawstring interior. The quintessential curved bamboo handles and bamboo drawstring accents, making it an essential addition to any luxury wardrobe or collection. 

Description
Designer: Gucci by Tom Ford
Name of product: 
Collection: 1990's
Hardware: Silver & Bamboo
Material: Smooth Calfskin
Made: Italy

Size & Fit
Height: 9"

Width: 9"

Depth: 6"

Handle Drop: 3"

About The Designer

No one understands sex appeal quite like Tom Ford , who joined Gucci as a women's wear designer in 1990.

At the time, the internationally renowned Italian label was better known for leather goods than luxury fashion. It was also nearly bankrupt. After creative director Dawn Mello left in 1994, following a Bahrain-based investment group becoming Gucci’s majority shareholder, Ford was named creative director. The American designer soon infused the brand with a fresh sensuality and bold style.

Ford's potent vision of sexed-up femininity spanned everything from shirts to shoes to handbags and other accessories at Gucci — he reimagined the house's iconic double-ring-and-bar Horse-bit hardware, a reference to the brands equestrian history, as a seductive low-slung belt, worn by Madonna when accepting an MTV video music award in 1995. For his fall show during that year, in which Kate Moss walked down the runway in an unbuttoned satin shirt, velvet hip-huggers and tousled hair, heralded an exciting, glammed-up era for the once fusty brand. Vogue critic Sarah Mower called it “one of those hitting-in-the-solar-plexus moments.”