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Article: SAINT LAURENT: TOM FORD'S FINAL BOW.(Ford, Tom)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- March 8, 2004
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Yves Saint Laurent: The party's over, and what a swell 10-year frolic it's been. Aspiring director Tom Ford scripted the last call brilliantly, ending on a prolonged high note that spanned two countries and rocked fashion.
After turning out a fabulous Gucci collection in Milan, did Ford have another one in him? The answer, it turns out, was absolutely. He said last week that he had taken a very different approach to Saint Laurent than to Gucci. He considered Saint Laurent not as a final show, "but as a continuation of what I've been working on," addressing famous Saint Laurent themes he hadn't tackled.
Among them: Chinoiserie, worked to subtle ...