“That side of me felt great relief that the whole Gucci thing ended after ten years,” he says.
It took him a while to persuade himself to come back to fashion, and he started first with a premium line of fragrances and then formal menswear, and finally, the kind of high-voltage eveningwear he excels at. In fact, it pretty much cemented his place as was probably the most era-defining designer of the decade between the mid-90s and the early-00s – an era that has come back into fashion in full force, courtesy of Y2K nostalgia.
Tom Ford’s first self-titled book, published in 2004, chronicled his stellar decade-long tenure and contentious exit from Gucci Group (now Kering), during which he was a force in shattering the last vestiges of fashion’s frothed-up eighties overstatement and introducing a sleek, highly-sexual kind of 70s hedonism – as well as being instrumental in the acquisition of Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and Boucheron. It couldn’t be more prescient that on resale platforms, such as TheRealReal and Vestiaire Collective, vintage Tom Ford (for Gucci and YSL) has reached record prices - predominantly among those who weren’t even born when it was first produced. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the namesake Tom Ford brand, launched in 2005, as well as the designer’s 60th birthday. Five years later, the family relocated to Los Angeles from London, after which Ford accepted the chairmanship of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. In 2012, he and his longtime partner, Richard, had a son, Jack. He directed two critically-acclaimed films: A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). He staged a triumphant return to fashion, reasserting himself as the king of elegant, nocturnal glamour and high-octane sexuality.
He built a beauty empire, courtesy of his cosmetics and fragrances partnership with Estée Lauder.
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