Seductive / Tom Ford
Business, Competitions, Future plans, Model, Personal, Products, Socializing, SocietyWhen Tom Ford resigned as creative director of the Gucci Group, loyal fashionistas from W Magazine ("it's a devastating shake-up") to money mavens at the Financial Times ("it really feels as if the foundations have been shaken") all sobbed into…
Johansson and Knightley Strip for Vanity Fair
Show, SocietyYoung movie beauties Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley have bared all for the annual Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair magazine. Johansson, 21, and Knightley, 20, appear naked alongside clothed designer Tom Ford in a special shoot by…
The look that Tom made
Business, Products, SocietyHe was the world’s leading fashion designer. So what did Tom Ford do next? Turn his attention to women’s faces, of course. Helen Brown reports on his supersexy new make-up range She looked impossibly glamorous and enviably sexy — part…
The Beauty of Being Tom Ford
Future plans, Personal, Products, Socializing, Society I'm sitting in the fumoir in Coleridge's waiting for Tom Ford, who loves this exclusive corner of London's most exclusive hotel. Uncharacteristically, he's late, but I'm not surprised. After all, he and his partner, Richard Buckley, are…
The New Ford Explorer
Business, Future plans, Personal, SocietyLast April, after a highly publicized power struggle over creative control at Gucci, Tom Ford, the company's creative director, left the Milan fashion house and headed to Hollywood. Ford, 43, who is credited with overhauling the once-stale…
Tom Ford with Peter Halley
Future plans, Personal, SocietyThe renowned designer, recently recovered from Gucci, talks about his liberal democratic childhood in Texas, his ranch in New Mexico, his new career in film, and his optimism about America's future. Creative Director Peter Halley and Tom…
Tom Ford
Business, Future plans, Personal, SocietyAs his new Yves Saint Laurent store opens on 57th Street, Fashion’s king of high-end sensuality talks about the city, sex, and shopping. Intrepid New Yorkers have several ways of making the most of summer’s swelter: There’s…
Gucci’s hairy ad
Business, Model, SocietyGucci marks the spot with a G in their latest press campaign, model Carmen Kass* is pictured pulling down her knickers and showing off body hair shaved into the letter 'G'. Mario Testino shot the image he calls 'Pubic Enemy' and it's displayed…
Inside Paris Fashion—Tom Ford—Interview
Business, Personal, SocietyINGRID SISCHY: So Tom--Paris. You're growing up and-- TOM FORD: Growing up? I'm getting old! IS: [laughs] I'm taking you back to when you were a child. TF: Oh, I thought you meant now. [laughs] IS: Later for now. So when…
Tom Ford
Business, Future plans, Personal, Products, SocietyAn American in Paris--and London--and with creations all over the world, he has put the frisson back in Gucci and is extending his reign with Yves Saint Laurent. There are things in the world that never change: gravity, the sine rule, your…
Velvet Fisticuffs; High Fashion, High Stakes in LVMH-Gucci Showdown
Business, Future plans, Personal, SocietyAs the fashion set gathers in Europe this week to preview fall collections, cashmere sweatshirts and fur ponchos will dominate the runways. But looming in the background is a nasty battle that has erupted as one luxury goods maker, LVMH, tries…
His sexy retro designs have made Gucci glamorous again.
Personal, Products, SocietyIN TERMS OF BOTH fashion vision and marketing savvy, Tom Ford, the guru of Gucci, is the envy of other designers. Since 1995, his sleek, sexy creations have quadrupled the Italian company’s gross annual sales (now $1 billion), and the New…