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This is why i ♥ Tom Ford!

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He made a fantastic creations perfectly fit for fabulous women like the First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama.

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The first lady wore ivory gown by Tom Ford and she looks stunning and I love what her stylist did to help her looking more elegant and gorgeous... gloves + sparkling long earrings.

Carine Roitfeld - Q&A Issues..Sort Of

Mademoiselle CARINE ROITFELD chill out and cleared the rumors behind her resignation in French Vogue. 

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Working with Tom Ford again?

No, no, I’m not going to work with Tom. That was ten years ago. If I look back at my CV, when I was freelance, I worked mostly ten years with Tom Ford at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. And after [that] I stopped and it was ten years at French Vogue. Now it’s a new decade and I don’t want to be doing what I was doing ten years ago. Of course, Tom is my friend and if he asks me what I think, I will answer. But I will not go and stay one week before the show and work with him.

As model to Tom Ford's next show?

He didn’t ask me.

Paris Vogue during her reign...

 
It took a little time, because when I came to Vogue ten years ago, it was not the Vogue it is today. Joan Juliet Buck, who I was working for as a freelancer, was more a journalist editor than a fashion editor, so it was focused more on the text and writers and not so much on fashion. And me, I come with all my fashion ideas, but it was very difficult at the beginning, because a lot of photographers, it’s easy to forget, didn’t want to work for the magazine…Each time we try to be better and better, and it takes almost ten years to be a team, and now I think the best team is there. It’s very sad to leave your family after ten years…But I think the times are changing, too. I said to Jonathan [Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International], when I can make it ten, it will be great for me. And I think in the last [period] that maybe I got less freedom than I got before, so I think it was just the right time for me to leave, because I want to enjoy and do everything that I want to do. And Jonathan was an amazing boss, because he let me do such crazy things. To put a black transsexual with a beard and high heels on the cover? I don’t think a lot of presidents will let you do that. I think it was fun to look at French Vogue. Each month was a new happening. But I think now they want to change a bit. Even the French president [Xavier Romatet, of Condé Nast France] now wants something a bit [pauses]…sweeter I would say, and if I cannot have a lot of fun, then I prefer to do something else.

Less freedom?

 
I think yes. I think the French president—maybe not Jonathan—but the French president thinks he wants something more [pauses]…I won’t say I’m too provocative; it’s my way of expressing myself, you know. They won’t change everything, because when something has been so [successful], it would be stupid to change it. Maybe they want [things] a bit more easy for everyone. It’s true, I’m always pushing. I like that. I’ve always been provocative, but what I’m going to do next is a new way of provocation. I did for many years porno chic. I was the queen of porno chic. And I will do something totally different now.

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The Tom Ford Issue...

 
I think it’s sad because when I did this Tom Ford issue, for example, we put a lot of little girls with makeup, a lot of jewelry. It was for Christmas and it’s nothing compared to what Guy Bourdin did 20 years ago or what I saw in all the magazines ten years ago.

 

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 .... but when you put kids, you always know it’s going to be a problem. There was no nudity, it was always a T-shirt under the evening dress, but you know, people see what they want…These are the risques du métier.

Fired because of the Tom Ford issue.
No, that’s wrong…I think it was a controversial issue, but they were all controversial issues. I told you, at the end of this decade, I could see that the new president in France wanted to change the direction of the magazine. I’m sure the Tom Ford issue is not the way they’re heading in the next few years, but it was not because of the Tom Ford issue. I was not fired, because if I was fired, it would not be a very nice ending. It was a discussion between Jonathan and myself, and he never fired me…I know I did a good job. I know the March issue is a record in terms of advertising. So I’m not leaving a sad magazine, an empty magazine. I’m leaving a magazine that has an epic stop. I’m very happy about that.

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Good terms with Emmanuelle Alt?
It’s true that we are in not in the best relations, [but] I don’t want to talk about it, to be honest.

 

Feud with Nicolas/Balenciaga?
Sometimes people like to put oil on the fire, to make something bigger, and afterwards with blogs and the Internet, things [get out of] proportion. But now it’s gone back like before and I’m very happy because I think he’s full of talent.

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I so ♥ Tender..este Tom Ford

I so love fashionindie's post about the 25 years relationship of my ultimate crush Tom Ford and fashion editor of Women's Wear Daily Richard Buckley.

Tom Ford and his partner of nearly 25 years, Richard Buckley, share their heartwarming love story with Out magazine. Turns out Tom’s then boss, Cathy Hardwick was responsible for their coupling: “Tender, get in here! Richard Buckley, the fashion editor of Women’s Wear Daily and editor of Scene, wants to go out with you. He’s very important. We need him. You take my credit card and go anywhere he wants to go.” Whoever said money can’t buy you love clearly never heard of a Black Card.

“His real name is Tom, but I call him Tender.”

Hardwich referred to Ford as Tender to “distinguish between her two Tom turkeys…one was Tough (her husband) and the other (Ford) was Tender.”

Tom and Richard’s is a story that almost restores one’s faith in true love…almost.

They met by chance at a fashion show after which Tom — being, as he describes himself, “extremely, almost pathologically shy” — ran away from Buckley.

“[W]hen the show was over I literally bolted out the door and down the street to avoid him.”

10 days later they met again at a photoshoot for WWD, got to talking, and on the elevator ride down Tom decided he was going to marry Richard. Through their 24 years together they’ve weathered illness and lowered expectations.

As Tom explains:

“One of the things that always amuses me – amuses isn’t even the right word, because it doesn’t amuse me — but often, I’m at dinner parties with very close friends, straight, and they realize that Richard and I have been together 24 years, and the response is often, ‘Wow, you guys have been together 24 years! That’s so amazing. I don’t think of gay men being together that long.’”

Honestly, I don’t think of gay men being together longer than one night, so I understand their shock. Unlike the lesbians, who mate for life, the gays seem to float aimlessly from one experience and one partner to another, guided, if by anything, their need for sexual gratification wrapped up in the guise of emotional fulfillment.

Tom and Richard are, sadly, the exception, rather than the rule. They’re lucky not only to have found one another, but to escape the height of the AIDS outbreak unscathed.

Richard describes getting throat cancer and how his supposed friends, assuming it was AIDS and terrified that they might catch it, refused to see him:

“Tom just cut them out — wouldn’t even speak to them if he ran into them on the street.”

Losing so many friends to the disease also affected Tom’s views on sex:

“[I]t damaged the way I think about sex forever. You just associated sex with death—or at least I did.”

This strikes me as particularly strange considering Tom Ford’s relationship with sex and sexual imagery over the years.

When one thinks Tom Ford, the next thought is usually sex; an exposed breast, bare buttocks, a jumpsuit cut down to there.  But when one thinks of Tom Ford they also don’t think of a pathologically shy man with a “good heart” who has been in love with the same man for 24 years.

Perhaps that’s the brilliance of Tom Ford: he’s an iconoclast, a provocateur and a helplessly old-fashioned romantic. Those elements are found in everything he does, whether it’s his collections, his first film (the heartbreaking A Single Man) or even a gig as a guest editor. He brings his own viewpoint, which never ceases to be interesting.

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Tom Ford+French VOGUE in December=Super FASHYON!

I'm so excited if the rumors are true...

That Tom Ford will be an editor at Paris/French Vogue in December.

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Update: Tom Ford...

Most people in the fashion world is eagerly awaits TOM FORD's come-back! And now, I found out from fashionindie some juicy details:

" On top of that, we hear that only one photographer was allowed inside, chosen by Tom, to take the exclusive photos which will be released sometime in January. AND, now, apparently the women who modeled the collection were ALL celebrities, including Beyonce, Julianne Moore, Daphne Guinness and more." -- fashionindie