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Tom Ford Wishes He Got Hit On More Often

fashionologie — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:48:21 PDT

>> Tom Ford and his boyfriend Richard Buckley have been together for 23 years, and at this point, Ford says: "No one comes on to me, ever. It is like I don’t exist sexually. No one, no one." When it's suggested that it might be because he's intimidating, Ford replies: "Maybe that is the reason, but no one, no one flirts, no one comes on to me. Usually when people are personal with me, then they want to give me their business card at the end of the conversation." He does wish that he got hit on more often, he though: "Of course! Why not? I am not saying I would act on it, but it would be nice." [The Talks]

On Tom Ford and Longtime Partner Richard Buckley's First Date, 24 Years Ago, Ford Predicted He Would Be a Millionaire Designer

fashionologie — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:24:36 PST

>> Tom Ford and his partner, fashion journalist Richard Buckley, have been together 24 years. Out had each man document his own side of their romance - from how they first encountered one another - when Ford was 25 and an assistant, and Buckley was 38 and WWD fashion editor - at a fashion show, to how their relationship grew. From Buckley's tale: "For our first date, we went to this really sleazy cheapo restaurant on the Upper East Side called Albuquerque Eats - I don’t think it exists anymore. Tom sat there chit-chatting: 'And in 10 years I’m going to be showing my own collection in Paris, and I’m going to be a millionaire, and I’m going to do this, and I’m going to do that.' And I kept thinking, This guy is really naive. But as we talked about other things, it was almost like seeing down a rabbit hole. I felt like I was looking at his eyes, and it was just spinning around and taking me down inside him. I could see he was a good man with a big heart." [Out]

Nicolas Ghesquiere On The Prospect of Designing Outside of Balenciaga

fashionologie — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:41:34 PST

>> Tom Ford helped Gucci Group acquire Balenciaga in 2001, particularly because of the interest in Nicolas Ghesquiere's design talent. It seems Ford's feelings haven't changed much - the two designers chat in the February 2010 issue of Interview and he admits to Ghesquiere: "I want to say that you are my favorite contemporary designer." Ford conducted the entire phone interview nude: "I stay this way pretty much 24 hours a day. Richard [Buckley, Ford's boyfriend] is very funny. He is usually completely dressed. He does not like to be naked. So he is in the house; we are having dinner. I am sitting there naked; he is sitting there completely dressed."

Nicolas on his design future »

Tom Ford: Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge "Made My Life Such Misery"

fashionologie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:58:25 PST

>> The relationship between Yves Saint Laurent, his business partner Pierre Berge, and his ready-to-wear successor Tom Ford was clearly a strained one. In 2004 as Ford was leaving the label, Saint Laurent said of Ford: "I think he has a lot of talent for, what do you call it, marketing. But he never showed interest in the archives." In between tales of his first sexual escapades and how he snuck his longtime partner Richard Buckley into A Single Man, Ford returns the favor in the December 2009-January 2010 issue of The Advocate:

“I don’t even remember much about my time at Yves Saint Laurent, though I do think some of my best collections were [there]-other than that black-and-white initial one. That one wasn’t very successful and wasn’t very good. But being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business boomed while I was there. Yves and his partner, Pierre Bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery.

"Pierre and Yves were just evil" »

Tom Ford's A Single Man Premieres at Venice Film Festival - Watch the Movie Trailer

fashionologie — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:26:08 PDT

>> A Single Man, which Tom Ford directed, coproduced, cowrote and called "the most personal thing" he's ever done, premiered today at the Venice Film Festival. The first trailer for the movie - which features a cameo by Ford's favorite ad model, Jon Kortajarena, as hustler Carlos - has also hit YouTube: see below; the colors and work of Mad Men's production designer Dan Bishop, who filled the same role for A Single Man, is instantly recognizable, and apparently the show's star Jon Hamm does an uncredited voiceover in the film.

The movie is already receiving good reviews - the Times UK called it "a thing of heart-stopping beauty . . . There will be critics who will be unable to get past the director’s background, but rest assured: Tom Ford is the real deal." Variety's verdict: "Luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections. An impressive helming debut for fashion designer Tom Ford."

And Ford himself is finally talking about the film: “People who don’t know me well will be very surprised by the film. It shows a different side of me." Despite Ford's fascination with sex in the fashion arena, the film contains no sex scenes.

He just finished editing A Single Man two weeks ago, and hopes this is the "the beginning of a parallel career alongside fashion," he tells WWD. "The process seems really natural to me, and I'd ideally like to make a film every three to four years." But he's trying to keep his two careers separate: "I didn’t want to be perceived as some fashion designer who’s come to Venice and decided to make a film . . . I wanted to avoid anything to do with fashion, and I wanted the film to speak for itself."

Video: the trailer! »

Tom Ford, Partner, Take In a Little "Mamma"

fashionologie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:58:41 PDT

Tom Ford with his longtime partner Richard Buckley, Mamma Mia! Premiere; London, June 30.

*image: source

A First Peek at Terry Richardson's Photos of Tom Ford's Spring 2011 Womenswear Show with Beyonce, Lauren Hutton, and More

fashionologie — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:30:47 PST

>> Terry Richardson was the only sanctioned photographer on hand for Tom Ford's Spring 2011 womenswear show, and the first of his photos from the event have finally popped up in Harper's Bazaar UK's January 2011 issue. There's Lauren Hutton in a tailored white suit and hat, Joan Smalls working a shredded organza shrug (with Ford's partner Richard Buckley, front row, caught taking the look in), Liya Kebede in a hand-painted floor-length fringed dress, and more.

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Tom Ford Wants to Do a Movie Every Three Years

fashionologie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:25:57 PDT

>> Tom Ford just finished editing his first feature film, A Single Man, with Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, and Matthew Goode - still no release date for this year - and although he's not supposed to be talking about the movie, he slips a few details to the Times UK.

When he told Julianne Moore she was sweet to do his film, "She said, ‘I’m not doing it to be sweet. I like the script’. I’m sure she called her agent though to check it wouldn’t be career death.” And despite his reputation for sexing things up in fashion, there's very little overt sex in A Single Man. Ford would like to do a film every three years - he finds it compatible with designing because it's so slow. “And a lot of the processes are the same.”

The man seems to be in the midst of changing sensibilities: instead of his usually stringent diet, he admits that he's currently five pounds overweight because he ate a lot of doughnuts during filming. The Botox is down to a minimum, and sex is not so much his thing anymore: “I hate talking about sex. Thing is, people look much better naked. They’re all the same colour and they can’t screw up. You see someone at the gym and they look great. Then they put on their clothes.”

No more runway shows, either »

Tom Ford Talks His Mid-Life Crisis, How He Will Never Retire

fashionologie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:57:08 PST

>> Tom Ford is mulling a return to women's fashion as early as next season; he feels like fashion has floundered since he left Gucci in 2004, he told W, and wishes the decade didn't have such a lack of definitive looks: "I don’t mean that that has anything to do with my leaving. I could feel [fashion] starting to flounder before I left, which helped me feel good about getting out at the time.”

But it wasn't all good: Ford had "a pretty intense midlife crisis" two years before leaving Gucci, around his 40th birthday.

“I started to sink emotionally, spiritually. I became a little bit lost. Leaving Gucci, it intensified because I had been able to cling to my job and to my work and to my identity as a successful fashion designer, and all of a sudden that was gone. It forced me to really think, Well, what am I, who am I, what am I about? It took me a bit of time to figure that out. I think this happens to most people in their life if they’re insightful enough to indulge it and to get through to the other side.”

"I hope I don’t come off sounding too rich and spoiled." »