Tom Ford

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So, that one really is the first chapter, and this is the second chapter, and I long to have a third chapter. People interviewing me at the time said, “oh we thought that it was a joke,” and, you know, that you’d never make a movie.

Ford in a suit with Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley in nothing but red lipstick for Vanity Fair. He transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world.Nothing stays the same, but Ford has his sexy extrovert signatures, and he’s sticking with them—all the way down to the cheeky lace underthings. Published to coincide with his departure from Gucci, this book has been created with Ford's full cooperation and every page reflects his exceptional taste.

I wasn’t happy because I wasn’t fulfilling any creative side in my life, which is what pulled me back into the fashion world. Fifty years from now, maybe our son, Jack, will look back and say, “ Wow, my dad really dressed everybody. A hot pink zoot suit was accompanied by a necktie that looked wider and shorter than recent examples.

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. Tonight’s collection looked back on his different chapters, the sheer tees and black satin bra tops evoking a Gucci spring 2001 show, the deconstructed chiffon dresses reminiscent of a YSL outing for spring 2002. It made me look at it all again and think to myself, whether one likes what I do or doesn’t like what I do, Wow!

Tom Ford features more than 200 photographs by Richard Avedon, Mario Testino, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Terry Richardson, Craig McDean, Todd Eberle, and numerous other photographers including many previously unpublished images. 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. The reason why I wanted to do that at the time was, yes, Gucci and Saint Laurent existed way before I went there, but in the case of Gucci, there really were not runway shows before I went. His thoughts on Gucci’s current designer Alessandro Michele: “I love him, and I think what he’s done is brilliant.When I was an alcoholic, well, I guess I still am an alcoholic, but when I drank I was a highly productive alcoholic; it didn’t hinder my work until maybe right at the end. In the past decade, he transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world. I think with the first book there was a very strong sense of the legacy you had created at Gucci and Saint Laurent.