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  • rach2jlc
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 265

    Tom Ford



    Just finished perusing Tom Ford's new website www.tomford.com



    It looks as though all the content isn't up yet, but it does have info about the menswear line, eyewear, and the fragrance. Ford is always one of those polarizing sort of guys, but I have to say I have a soft spot for him and am looking forward to checking out the collection when the flagship opens next year.



    I'm sure others will disagree, but nevertheless I thought it might be interesting to get other opinions about the prospects for his new line, which will be produced by Zegna.

  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #2
    Re: Tom Ford

    I gotta say, I hate the guy, lol. I never thought of him as a designer. He's just a clever stylist with a lot of celebrity connections. Of course that does not mean that he did not make his mark on the late 90's and early 00's, he's certainly a fashion history figure that one should know. He's a good businessman, and it is evident from the website and what he will be doing. Scent first, than eyewear - two big moneymakers. Menswear readily outsourced to an Ok manufacturer, good, but not great, which will also allow for high profit margins. I don't expect this to be anything remotely interesting. Looks like it will be clothes for young Wall Streeters at worst, and for your Wall Streeters to wear after work at best (or the reverse, not sure yet).
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

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    • rach2jlc
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2006
      • 265

      #3
      Re: Tom Ford



      Oh, I knew you weren't a Ford man, Faust. I consider him my guilty pleasure, I guess... that 1/725 part of me that also sometimes wants to watch "Predator" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.



      I doubt that it will be anything very innovative or different, but I do think it will be interesting to see his little tweaks on standard items.Though he may not be a great "designer," nevertheless he somehow manages to make my ass look better than anybody else I know. [:P]

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #4
        Re: Tom Ford

        [quote user="rach2jlc"]

        Oh, I knew you weren't a Ford man, Faust. I consider him my guilty pleasure, I guess... that 1/725 part of me that also sometimes wants to watch "Predator" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.



        I doubt that it will be anything very innovative or different, but I do think it will be interesting to see his little tweaks on standard items.Though he may not be a great "designer," nevertheless he somehow manages to make my ass look better than anybody else I know. [:P]



        [/quote]



        John, that is a plus that should not be overlooked! [Y]

        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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        • Faust
          kitsch killer
          • Sep 2006
          • 37852

          #5
          Re: Tom Ford



          From IHT. I am a little surprised about how sober, mature, and sensitive Tom sounds.








          A creature of the night: Tom Ford bares his soul
















          With a kiss for Jennifer Lopez and an arm round Naomi Watts, Tom Ford was back in his natural habitat: the limelight.




          Two and a half years after leaving Gucci Group and his starring
          role, the designer has rekindled the fashion flame. Or, more precisely,
          he has donned sexy 1970s-inspired shades and splashed on his new Black
          Orchid fragrance, at least until his men's store opens on Madison
          Avenue next spring.




          Ford is the first designer to have actively planned brand-building
          from the neck down. Instead of celebrating his name in fashion and then
          adding on accessories and fragrance, he has turned that 20th-century
          tradition on its head, by first forging a license agreement with Estée
          Lauder for beauty and fragrances, then with Italy's Marcolin for
          eyeglasses and a menswear line with Ermenegildo Zegna.




          "It's by design for two reasons," says Ford. "I realized that I
          wanted to come back [to fashion] but I was a little shell- shocked -
          and I didn't know how far back."




          On a personal level, he made a vow that he would not do women's
          fashion until he had made his first movie, a project that he had hoped
          Hollywood would greet with open arms. But he received only dubious
          movie proposals from people who had seen his infamous ads he describes
          as "shaving a 'G' in a girl's pubic hair."




          "I was a little naïve - coming from an industry where I could do
          anything I wanted," says Ford, who is finally realizing his dream with
          a "tight, independent film" he starts shooting in July.




          That will be after the launch of his self- funded New York menswear
          store, one of a trio with London and Milan that will carry everything
          from luggage and jewelry to tailoring and tuxedos. He is being helped
          and encouraged by Domenico De Sole, his teammate at Gucci.




          Ford is wearing a pinstripe suit with sharp shoulders, a fitted
          waist and the slightly louche air of a British gentleman morphing into
          a European roué. He would surely have been wearing the sculpted
          sunglasses, but for the low lighting at the Carlyle Hotel - his home-
          away-from-home from his residences in London, Los Angeles and Santa Fe.




          "I have always loved the night - I'm not sure why, but as a kid I
          was fascinated by vampires," says Ford. "My natural biorhythm is to
          sleep until 5 p.m. and then have a cocktail."




          His penchant for the dark included last week's late-night party at Rockefeller Center to launch "Black Orchid."




          He has a passion for orchids, even to the extent of "building
          greenhouses in New Mexico" with his partner, Richard Buckley. The
          fragrance was created by tracking down - via a Swiss orchid expert and
          a grower in Santa Barbara, California - one of four existing black
          orchids. Experts then caught the "head space" of the single flower that
          has so far bloomed and created the rich scent that he is himself
          wearing. The ribbed black Lalique glass bottle has been captured by the
          lens of the legendary photographer Irving Penn.




          "It has a slightly old-fashioned glamour," says Ford. "My woman is a
          hybrid - she is a hothouse plant - not a gardenia, a daisy or a rose."
          Next spring he will bring out for "fragrance connoisseurs" 12 unisex
          fragrances with heady scents and headier price tags.




          The essence of Ford's Gucci was a raw sexuality with a decadent aura
          that invaded the grungy early 1990s and re- launched the brand.




          Ford says he now prefers to talk about "sensuality," although he
          himself exudes a stagy glamour. ("Well I did go to acting school." he
          says, "Even if I did ads and TV sitcoms.")




          He calls the Marcolin eyeglasses, for which he carried off an ACE
          award from the Accessories Council of New York last week, a product
          "that can convey everything about a particular era, like the tail fins
          on a car." The sophisticated collection has a hint of the 1970s pimp
          that was always Ford's signature.




          How easy has it been to get over Gucci and start afresh?




          Ford describes it as "like a death or a divorce." And the wounds may
          not yet have healed. When he spotted the Texan socialite Lynn Wyatt
          last week in a golden Gucci pantsuit, Ford lost his cool, refusing to
          be photographed with his former friend in front of dinner guests, who
          included the former president Bill Clinton on his 60th birthday tour.




          "Can you imagine that man - what he must have suffered - the
          depression, the despair," Ford said later, imagining Clinton's
          post-presidential experience after leaving the world stage at a young
          age. The designer might have been describing himself.




          "I was probably speaking anecdotally in my small way," said Ford. "I
          was depressed. I wallowed in self-pity. I drank way too much, although
          that happened while I was still at Gucci, living in London where
          everyone consumes quantities of liquor.




          "I had therapy for the first time in my life and that helped me to
          realize that the greatest pleasure in my life comes from making,
          building and creating things. It is the process that I love."




          Ford is now concentrating on his flagship store in a building with
          the formal elegance of his favored decade, the 1930s. It can be no
          coincidence that he has picked a site at East 70th Street almost
          opposite Gucci, with Yves Saint Laurent (his other former day job) in
          part of the building and with Ralph Lauren on the next block.




          Ford's strategy in creating luxury menswear, rich in quality,
          fabric, cut and details, is based on the fact that "Giorgio Armani and
          Ralph [Lauren] have both dominated but they are both 74 years old - and
          who is behind them?" Ford, at 45, believes that he has "something new
          to say."




          Yet his problem is that he gave his powerful and particular persona
          to Gucci. That brand may be changing, but, significantly, two almost
          identical invitations arrived on fashionistas' desks last week: both
          square, black and shiny with insets of gold. One was celebrating a new
          Gucci book being released on Wednesday; the other was inviting guests
          to the Black Orchid launch on Thursday. What was the difference? One
          was for the 85th birthday of a two- billion-dollar brand; the other
          was, even accounting for Ford's proven talent and name recognition, a
          start-up.




          "I feel confident, but I feel fear - and I think that anyone who
          isn't afraid is a fool," says Ford of his new venture. "Nothing is ever
          certain - until the doors open to the store and the cash registers keep
          ringing. And I have never worked so hard in my life."









          Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

          StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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          • mrbeuys
            Senior Member
            • May 2008
            • 2313

            #6
            Tom Ford's A Single Man

            Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.

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            • philip nod
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2007
              • 5903

              #7
              didn't realize perfume ads attracted so many stars these days
              One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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              • mrbeuys
                Senior Member
                • May 2008
                • 2313

                #8
                Originally posted by philip nod View Post
                didn't realize perfume ads attracted so many stars these days
                Wonder if the lack of dialogue in the trailer is an indication of something... Looks nice though.
                Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.

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                • galia
                  Senior Member
                  • Jun 2009
                  • 1719

                  #9
                  I think it looks pretty but super cliché
                  and thses 60's hairdos were truly a thing of horror

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                  • Vanna
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2008
                    • 1217

                    #10
                    Hmm, another Far From Heaven for Julianne? Either way, she's a goddess.
                    Life is a hiiighway

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                    • Fade to Black
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 5340

                      #11
                      Saw that trailer earlier...what can I say, the whole vision is very Tom Ford. At least the clothes don't look overtly so, thankfully.
                      www.matthewhk.net

                      let me show you a few thangs

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