Gucci by Tom Ford Fall/Winter 2004 heels, from Tom Ford's final and celebrated collection for the house. Dark navy velvet, nearly black, with a dark brown fur ankle tie and a woven black leather heel. The emotional ending of the Tom Ford era at Gucci was a look back in glamour — a fabulous farewell in which this perfection-obsessed superstar of fashion seized the moment to run his eye over everything he has achieved for the brand, and then do it better. There is no doubt who the Gucci woman is: the embodiment of sexual confidence, burnished to a high gloss and bursting with predatory power. A symbolic figure of the past decade's hedonistic highs, she spike-heeled her way down a runway carpeted with pink fur, luxuriating in Ford's aesthetic one last time. These heels are the embodyment of the whole collection distilled into a single object.