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Article: Fashion front: it's the fashion story of the year-Tom Ford and Domenico De Sole are leaving Gucci Group.(Fashion Flash)
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- January 1, 2004
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It is with great sadness that I contemplate my future without Gucci Group." With that powerful single sentence, Tom Ford made his sole public comment to date on his resignation from Gucci Group, in a statement released at the time the devastating shake-up was announced.
As everyone now knows, come spring, the designer who has had perhaps the greatest impact on the fashion industry over the past 10 years will be out of a job. So, too, will his longtime compadre in Gucci's glorious ascent to the top, president and CEO Domenico De Sole. Early in November, months of negotiations with the brass of Gucci's parent company, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, collapsed ...