The idea, though, that he might be stronger on style than substance endured when Ford moved into film. Daniel Craig insists on Tom Ford suits for the Bond films, while Michelle Obama chose one of his gowns when she met the Queen. In 2006, he started trading under his own name and there are now 122 Tom Ford stores, which take around $1bn each year in sales. This is, after all, how he made his name: he arrived, unheralded, as a designer at Gucci in 1990, when the company was on its knees when he departed in 2004, it was one of the world’s most desired luxury brands, owning Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney, and valued at $10bn. It is common, as shown here, to fixate on Ford’s aesthetic. ‘That very hard, lacquered, manufactured, glamorous life is part of the story’: Tom Ford directs Amy Adams in the opening scenes of Nocturnal Animals. I don’t drink, some people drink.” He exhales theatrically. “Some people go out and have a cigarette. So it’s meditative for me, it’s not that I have some cleanliness obsession.” The same at night, I can’t go to sleep unless I get in the bathtub and again, wash away the day. ![]() Same in the evening, before dinner, I can’t go from work and out to a dinner and be good at a dinner – meaning be interesting and charming and be interested and listen to someone – unless I kind of wash away the day. I think about the day, I think about what I’ve got to do. I take a bath in the morning, because the time I lie in the bathtub is when I work out all my problems. “Oh, I can explain that,” he counters, a little disappointed perhaps that the rumour was not more outrageous. “Eccentric?” says Ford, visibly perking up, his hands carving arcs, like a matador’s. Some people would regard him as eccentric, I say. That – this one courtesy of Victoria Beckham – he flies long haul in his suit and his only concession is to undo a single waistcoat button. That he once sent an employee home for wearing three-quarter-length trousers. That he doesn’t like to see or smell food in his office. There are numerous stories-cum-urban-legends that have attached themselves to Ford over the years. He is completely serious and at the same time, nullifying the criticism often levelled at those in the fashion world, completely aware that some people will find what he’s saying ridiculous. And I don’t look like a fool.”įord – I hope this is coming across – is surprisingly funny. ![]() Well, all of a sudden, 200 years of Texas pioneer background kind of genetically seems to just work on my head. “Except the parts when we were in Texas, where I wore cowboy boots and a cowboy hat, which looks surprisingly good on me. I’m comfortable, it suits who I am,” he replies. How about when he was shooting his new film, Nocturnal Animals, did Ford wear a suit then? “Yes, I wore it on set, it’s a uniform. I mean, I wear them when I’m at the gym, but I feel soft and I don’t like that.” I actually had people say to me, ‘My God, I didn’t realise you had such depth.’ It’s kind of shocking Some people look great in knitwear that’s what they want to wear, they look good in it, it feels right for them. You gotta learn in life what makes you feel comfortable in terms of clothing and that’s what you should wear. “You know, I’m not good in knitwear.” His voice, almost a growl, is saturated with disdain. Today, as he almost always does, Ford wears a cinched black suit, matching tie, a gold collar bar. These are looks that many would sell their souls for, but Ford, now an impossible 55 years old, hasn’t needed to: just lots of vegetables and fish, no booze for years, tennis three times a week and an occasional restrained touch-up with Botox under the eyes and Just for Men dye on his beard stubble. He is, it’s almost inane to note, a very handsome individual. Tom Ford, the man, has always been the most compelling advertisement for Tom Ford, the creative output.
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