Kim Kardashian West and Kylie Jenner have been wearing a lot of Tom Ford–era Gucci lately. This week, a coworker messaged me an image of Jenner perched on the corner of a hotel bed, all sultry and coy in a body-hugging, completely bedazzled off-the-shoulder dress. The piece was originally worn by Jacquetta Wheeler in the label’s Spring 2000 show, transforming her birdlike figure into dangerous curves. Almost 20 years later, Jenner wore it to her 21st birthday party in Las Vegas.
Jenner’s older sister is also a noted fan of the label’s ’90s and Y2K incarnations. She wore a suit and slinky black dress—worn by Kate Moss at the Spring 1997 show—in November of 2017 and crystal-slathered mules a few months later in March 2018—both pieces from Tom Ford’s tenure. And yesterday, she posted an image of herself wearing that thong: the string thing with a double-kissing-G emblem that hits smack-dab on the lower back—for lack of better words, a chic “tramp stamp.” The straps are meant to be worn hiked up around the hip bones, just as the smoky-eyed male and female models wore them on the Spring 1997 runway. So where did Mrs. Kardashian West or her stylist get it? (An archive? Poshmark?) How much was it? (They are going over and up past $1,000 on auction sites.) Did she wash it? (We’ve been down that intimate road before!) Who cares. It looked great—and seemed made for her extreme figure.
Tom Ford’s Gucci is a good choice for the Kardashian-Jenner clan. The family volleys weekly from one trend to another: monogrammed this, Yeezy that. Sometimes fashion gets too think-y and cumbersome, and yesteryear Gucci is dependable in a hot way. It’s what someone wants to wear when they are feeling liberated. Go to Vogue Runway and read the write-ups of the shows: The word sex is in every other review. It’s a mood certainly worth double-tapping, especially in this world gone mad. All of which is to say: Which of the sisters nabbed that black Tom Ford–era Gucci tube top I had been eyeing on eBay?
