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⁣Over the next few years, when I flew to Paris to shop for vintage or go to the flea markets, Richard would often accompany me.”

All explained that Richard had told them about this new vintage store on Melrose Avenue and the youngish guy who had opened it. ⁣Within a few days, Tom Ford had popped in and then Lisa Eisner. “Richard asked me lots of questions and was generally keen about why I had opened a vintage clothing store. “He purchased a neon and black swirl ’60s dress on eyelash fabric,” Silver wrote. In his condolences on Instagram, Cameron Silver, owner of vintage store Decades on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, wrote about how he met Buckley in 1997 shortly after Decades opened.

Friends of Buckley described him as a man known for his curiosity, kindness, wit and style. Practical glamour, athleisure, a bride in white and a constellation of stars mark the designer’s hometown stand during Oscars weekend.īy Tuesday morning, people from the fashion industry and those with ties to Los Angeles had shared personal stories about Buckley and their condolences on social media. Lifestyle Review: Tom Ford gets in an L.A. He added, “Richard and I are bound together, and I think that’s what that recognition is when you look someone in the eyes and you feel like you’ve known them forever. I don’t think of gay men being together that long.’ And I’m, like, ‘Why? What are you talking about?’ Some of the longest relationships I know of are same-sex couples.” “One of the things that always amuses me - ‘amuses’ isn’t even the right word, because it doesn’t amuse me - but often,” Ford said in the essay, “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. “Tom has seen me through so much, from throat cancer to my brother and mother dying 48 hours apart, to more bouts of pneumonia than I can count,” Buckley told the New York Times in 2019, noting that Ford had sewn him turtleneck wool dickeys with keyhole slits for his tracheotomy tube and a black silk scarf with slits to wear at formal events.įord wrote about their relationship in an essay for the “Love Issue” of Out magazine in 2011. Fourteen months later, a Supreme Court ruling would make same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. The designer said in April 2014 that he and Buckley had gotten married in the U.S. The looks they wore were archival designs of Ford’s greatest hits: a hot pink breastplate top, a tiny sequined mini with shimmering pasties, a white flared pantsuit with a large pussy bow blouse.Movies Tom Ford crafts a layered thriller-within-a-thriller with ‘Nocturnal Animals’įirst thing on a recent Monday morning and Tom Ford looked more impeccably put-together than just about anyone else on their most glamorous Saturday night out. Tom Ford stood outside, peering in at his creations, flicking his wrists like a maestro as their faces pressed against the glass. Standing in three large glass displays reminiscent of exhibits at history museums were models like Joan Smalls, Amber Valetta and Karlie Kloss, squirming and strutting in their encasements. The videos were shot in a long cement hallway lit by dim blue lights. This was goodbye? It felt extremely subtle for someone who has made his name eschewing subtlety. Today, more than a decade later, for his final collection, he pays homage to the Tom Ford woman with limited re-editions of his best-known iconic signature looks.” I had to read it twice to make sure I read it right.

Here are the first two: “In 2010, Tom Ford launched his first womenswear collection.

The press statement that followed was the same as the captions posted online, just four sentences long.

#Tom gord series#

So, it did not feel very Tom Ford when Tom Ford released his final Tom Ford collection with a series of videos that appeared in social media feeds and inboxes. Ford told Vogue, “I do not understand everyone’s need to see everything online the day after a show.” No phones were allowed, and only Terry Richardson had permission to take photographs. There was Laura Hutton, Gigi Hadid, Beyoncé, and Julianne Moore, wearing thigh-high lace boots, unbuttoned silk blouses, animal print, and black stockings. The 100 invitees were seated on gold chairs, crammed into a space so small the models-a cast of “many of the world’s most inspirational women,” as he announced himself via microphone before they walked down the runway-brushed against the attendees' knees. It took place in 2010, six years after people cried at his final show for Gucci, in the eponymous brand’s first store on Madison Avenue. It's hard to find traces of Tom Ford’s first Tom Ford show online.