Tom Ford Fashion Designer Profile

Female: Dumped by his fashion is the king of cool and sexiness, Tom Ford
has always been at the top of the fashion industry.

Studying at the New York City’s Parsons School of Design and
before his final year, Ford had the chance to spend six months
working as an intern in the press office of the French luxury
fashion design house Chloe where he realize his love of fashion.
After graduating, Ford spent a number of years working for
American design companies but grew tired of the American
fashion so he traded American style for European where he knew
style would be appreciated.

He entered the world of European fashion when he was given an
opportunity to join the luxury goods company Gucci. Hired as
Gucci’s chief women’s ready to wear designer to strengthen the
brand and give it a new look.

Tom Ford: Music is literally the rhythm of our time and fashion also always
tells us really where we are culturally and the two for me really go
hand and hand. I mean every time I design a collection, I think
constantly about music. I mean I listen to music constantly anyway
but really is very literally the beat of our time.

Female: As Gucci wasn’t the most loved brand at the time, Ford’s input
helped the company grow rapidly. By 1994, Ford was Gucci’s
creative director and put the glamour back into their designs. He
was regarded as one of the architects of the Italian fashion houses
rise from near bankruptcy in the 1990s to the third biggest luxury
goods in the world by sales.

Gucci then obtained the house of Yves Saint-Laurent where Ford
was also named creative director. While his fast collection for YSL
in October 2001, received lukewarm reviews. He was later praised
for successfully reinventing YSL with his own flare by respecting
its time trademarks. While at YSL, Ford won a number of awards
from the Council of Designers of America. His high profile
departure from Gucci in 2004 shocked many in fashion who saw
the Texas born designer is one of the most powerful figures of the
industry at that time.

His final show summed up the look he has created since being with
the fashion house. His humor came through adding lightness to the
fact that he is leading the house. The clothes were reminiscing
made with sleek and well cut.

Following his departure, he created his own fashion house, Tom
Ford which now covers men’s wear, beauty, eye wear and men’s
and women’s accessories. In April 2007, he opened his first flag
ship store in New York which unlike the ubiquity of his designs in
the 1990s is very much made to measure one of a kind and only for
men.

Tom Ford: I was opening a new store in New York which is very much about
custom, special things, made to order, made to measure and the
things that you can’t find everywhere. And so I develop this
collection of fragrances only for that store. And when we finished
it, every retailer that saw it wanted it and then we thought, maybe
we should put this in a very tight, limited distribution.

Female: Ford was often credited for bringing one lady back to the fashion
forefront with his sexy and powerful looks which unsurprisingly
was a favorite amongst the Hollywood set.

From Nicole Kidman and one of his last Yves Saint-Laurent
designs a gold goddess with fabric impaired with a flowing chiffon
skirt and her Hancock co-star Will Smith.

Although he has remained relatively low key, he has managed to
launch a highly successful fashion house of his own and revived
two of the world’s most recognized and now loved brands.