Tom Ford 002

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Whether it’s creating clothing for the global marketplace, taking the beauty world by storm or writing and directing award-winning films, Ford’s legacy and influence are unmatched. Los Angeles is built around life at friends’ houses, around swimming pools, and when you’re raising a 9-year-old, it’s wonderful,” he tells THR.

As the fashion industry continues to recover from the effects of COVID-19, Ford oversaw a full schedule of Spring 2022 shows during New York Fashion Week in September in his capacity as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Other than having Jack and raising him, making A Single Man is probably the single thing I’m most proud of because it was so incredibly personal,” Ford says. Well, Richard [Buckley, Ford’s late husband] said, when I showed it to him was – very dry – he said, “Well, it’s a lot of water under the bridge.

As a follow up to that tome, Ford announced today that he will be releasing a second hardcover, this time focusing on his post-Gucci years. That feeling translates so easily to social media: I think Instagram, for all its evils, may actually save fashion.

Now, in a companion volume out this month, a sober and vegan Ford looks back on the many lives that he has lived since then: as a husband and a father, and as a creative visionary who brought his style to the world of the movies as a lauded director, and subsequently managed a powerful fashion and beauty comeback with his eponymous brand.Now more than a decade after his best-selling debut book Tom Ford was released, highlighting his time as Creative Director of Gucci (a position now held by Alessandro Michele), Ford is back with Tom Ford 002 to showcase and celebrate his life’s work. Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Luckily, a lot of young people seem to have latched onto the kind of things that I did at Gucci and the kinds of things that I did at Saint Laurent. Women for some reason need to see things to kind of give them the confidence to wear it or let their eyes adjust to what the new silhouette is.

Looking back at that phase of your career and your first book, how do you see that and contemplate that now at this distance? In the book, he reminisces about favorite moments in 2012: “Gwyneth Paltrow walked down the red carpet at the Oscars in a white dress with a cape that she selected straight from the showroom. Looking back at it, why it was a great show, why the room worked, the vibe worked… You couldn’t walk away from it saying, ‘Tom Ford believes in this,’ because at the time I wanted to make clothes for all different kinds of individual women.Perhaps it’s no accident that Ford enjoys that idea, as images of Moore and Colin Firth from on set and behind the scenes on A Single Man likewise occupy significant space in 002. Ford edited the images over the course of a year, starting with “thousands and thousands” of photos gathered from his com­pany’s public relations departments around the world. But ultimately what you ended up with was a room full of a lot of different clothes that didn’t have one precise message of, ‘I believe in this kind of pant shape and that kind of jacket shape and these kinds of colors.