credited with the complete refashioning of Gucci
making it "hot" label of the 1990s
Tom ford instigated the mania for employing new designers to reinvigorate established fashion houses. within five years,Food trans-formed the tired old status label of Gucci from a failing business into a $2.2 billion asset. Cited as the man responsible for dressing the final years of the twentieth century, he was called "the ultimate" fin de siecle designer" by the New York times.