- Title: ITALY: GUCCI SPRING-SUMMER 1998 COLLECTION
- Date: 6th October 1997
- Summary: MILAN, ITALY (OCTOBER 6, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/SV MODELS IN BLACK OUTFITS (7 SHOTS) 0.49 2. SV MODELS IN UNDERWEAR (2 SHOTS) 1.12 3. SV MODELS IN LEATHER JACKETS (2 SHOTS) 1.40 4. SV MODEL IN EVENING WEAR 1.49 5. MCU ACTRESS DEMI MOORE IN AUDIENCE PAN TO MODEL 2.02 6. SV DESIGNER TOM FORD ON CATWALK 2.08 7. CU TOM FORD SAYING I WANTED TO MAKE THE COLLECTION MORE CHIC, MORE REFINED BUT AT THE SAME TIME MORE SEXY. I WANTED TO MAKE CLOTHES THAT WOMEN WANT TO WEAR (ENGLISH) 2.36 8. MCU FORD TALKING 2.41 9. SV BEHIND SCENES VIEW OF SHOW 2.45 Initials P3 S3 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: MILAN, ITALY
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- Country: Italy
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- Story Text: Luxury goods house Gucci has lightened its hard-edged sex appeal and gone for softer more seductive shapes in its Spring-Summer 1998 collection.
American designer Tom Ford described his latest collection on Monday (October 6) as "easier to wear and more adapted for a normal woman," and that he was trying to go for a "sexy but elegant" look His models on Milan's catwalk looked like girls walking to the office, wearing little makeup and swept-back hair.
Pants were again low-slung, either secured at the bared hips by ultra thin black patent leather straps, echoing the slim braces of Gucci's men's collection, or gaping at the lower back like oversized men's trousers.
Going against the current trend for micro-minis, skirts were at knee length or below, very tight and worn with darkest brown crocodile-look jackets.
Skimpiest black underwear covered in glittering red sequins, with spaghetti-thin straps at the hips and shoulders, was an essential part of the new look.
It showed through transparent body-hugging evening dresses with high collars and long tapering sleeves and matt-black twin-sets worn with lustrous low-slung skirts.
There were sophisticated colour mixes in suits of iridescent plums, browns and reds but there were also more feminine powder blues and silvery lavenders for evening.
Big stiff-fabric coats with wide matching belts came in pink or sky blue. The clothes were worn with tiny bags as slim as pencil cases in crocodile finish or black patent while shoes were squared and lower heeled.
Actress Demi Moore, a special guest to the show, said the clothes had "a strong feeling but with nice feminine elements."
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