Tom Ford's first collection for Gucci put glamour and sex back into fashion. His sensual skintight satin shirts, low slung velvet hipsters, boot-cut jeans embellished with feathers and dripping in beads, lace tunics and Halston-esque ‘goddess' silk jersey dresses with key-hole cut-outs, eradicated grunge. Then there were the accessories: polished metallic patent high heeled boots, teetering stilettos, tinted '70s style rock star sunglasses, pendants and gorgeous tasselled bags helped create a sexy - and wearable - uniform ideal for day or night. Bankrupt when Ford joined, a year later (following Mario Testino's legendary campaigns featuring Amber Valletta) Gucci was valued at $4.3billion. From 1994-2001 if you didn't wear Gucci (or at least Gucci style) you weren't born.