Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . The fashion glitterati are clawing for tickets.
Newspapers are rife with speculation.
And designers from Gaultier to Galliano showing in Paris this week are being overshadowed by the build-up to the hottest show in town. Rarely can a fashion collection have invited so much scrutiny, or a designer been under so much pressure, as the Italian house of Gucci's suave and eminently bankable Tom Ford. ALSO Dressing down the Guccis But much more is at stake than next year's hemlines and heels. Ford's new Gucci collection in Milan went very well, and if he succeeds with YSL, he'll be a hero. Gucci has not revealed how much it is spending to rejuvenate the look of a fashion name made famous by French screen idol Catherine Deneuve.