Mules played a pivotal role in Gucci's commercial revival in the 1990s, starting with Tom Ford's 1994 clogs that became a fashion sensation. Carine Roitfeld popularised strap-treading in 1997, inspiring Ford to create slippery, squared-toe mules that left runways and entered wardrobes. The 2025 Gucci mules draw clear inspiration from Ford's Spring/Summer 2001 collection, notable for curvaceous leather-and-mesh corseted dresses, partially shaved male models, and an 80s New Wave sharpness in colour, shoulders, and footwear. The 2001 signature — closed-toe cone-heel courts with a vamp chiselled to a razor point — informs the new design. The Gucci 97 heeled mule is offered in pastel green and violet patent leather.
"The first thing that signalled the turn around of Gucci in the early 1990s under a then-unknown Texan designer named Tom Ford was a pair of clogs that, inexplicably, became the hottest item in fashion circa 1994. Afterwards Carine Roitfeld, keynote stylist of Gucci under its subsequent heady 90s explosion, spent a whole season in 1997 treading on the straps of her slingbacks."
"These 2025 Gucci mules, however, are very distinctly reminiscent of a very specific Ford collection - his outing for Spring/Summer 2001, a somewhat legendarily maligned affair where Kate Moss made a rare runway appearance in curvaceous leather and mesh corseted dresses and Ford managed to persuade a bunch of male models to have half their head shaved to better underline the sharp, 80s New Wave aesthetic he was favouring."
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