Last week Gucci celebrated its 85th year in the forefront of fashion. Their runway numbers illustrated the Gucci style that fashion icons have clamoured for since the roaring twenties.

This year’s show featured nuances of the swinging Sixties with mini skirts, jagged heels and myriad colours.

For the avid Gucci fans there’s a celebratory book Gucci by Gucci, giving us the history of fashion Italian-style.

Here we feature show stoppers from Gucci’s current campaign (top two rows), highlights from their 2006 autumn/winter seasonal shades (third row) and last week’s party pieces for Spring 2007 (bottom row):