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Article: IF YOU WERE TOM...
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- WWD
- Article date:
- November 4, 1999
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Hire Stella. Fire Alber. Recruit McQueen. Retire Berge. Bond with Yves. Promote Hedi Slimane.Or just give up Gucci and do the job yourself. Tom Ford may or may not do all or some of the above, but that's the advice he's getting from a broad range of fashion professionals who responded when WWD posed the question: "If you were Tom Ford, what would you do with the house of Saint Laurent?"
Ford and his Gucci cohort, Domenico De Sole, have not even officially acquired the house yet, although it's expected any day now that their key corporate partner and shareholder, Francois Pinault, will close the deal that turns Sanofi -- YSL's parent -- over to Gucci.