Looking back at it, why it was a great show, why the room worked, the vibe worked… You couldn’t walk away from it saying, ‘Tom Ford believes in this,’ because at the time I wanted to make clothes for all different kinds of individual women. His thoughts on Gucci’s current designer Alessandro Michele: “I love him, and I think what he’s done is brilliant.

Vanity Fair may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.The menswear was slightly more tempered, if not as traditional as the Tom Ford tux Jason Sudeikis scored in at the Emmys on Monday. The images in this book are more personal [than his first] because they are purely my own brand,” he explains.

This book is a complete catalogue of Ford's design work for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004. A hot pink zoot suit was accompanied by a necktie that looked wider and shorter than recent examples. Brimming with celebrities, the book will have you chanting Jay-Z’s unforgettable “Tom Ford,” named for the designer—which Ford maintains is still one of his most surreal moments. 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. He transformed Gucci from a moribund accessories label into one of the sexiest fashion brands in the world.

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. I was under the misguided impression that the women I wanted to dress didn’t want their clothes seen in magazines five months before they could actually wear them. Instead of solely focusing on fragrance, cosmetics, and eyewear Ford saw a niche in the market for menswear, an empire was born and the rest is history. Tom Ford 002 takes the reader through a glamour-filled journey of all things Tom Ford, featuring previously unpublished images ranging from 2005 to the present day.

For all the glossy surfaces and metallic shine, however, there was an undeniable melancholic undercurrent. Do you think it’s the fact that they are so uniquely personal that you’ve resisted an urge to watch them again or do you think you might? In his first book, TOM FORD 001, Tom Ford charted his era defining work at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent from 1994 to 2004, capturing the hedonism of the decade in the process. One of Lowit’s early subjects was Pat Cleveland, a frequent model for Yves Saint Laurent, and she was in the audience this evening, too. The pandemic has accelerated a generational shift the reverberations of which will only become more pronounced.

It is Ford's testament to a career of singular moments reinventing the boundaries of style and sensuality in clothing.

Women for some reason need to see things to kind of give them the confidence to wear it or let their eyes adjust to what the new silhouette is. 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. 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! And the I scratch your back, you scratch mine dealing in fashion: “Why would I pay people to wear my clothes? I spoke to Ford about what Karl Lagerfeld taught him, how it feels being name-checked in a Jay Z song, and much more.But ultimately what you ended up with was a room full of a lot of different clothes that didn’t have one precise message of, ‘I believe in this kind of pant shape and that kind of jacket shape and these kinds of colours. Fifty years from now, maybe our son, Jack, will look back and say, “ Wow, my dad really dressed everybody. On Saturday, the photographer William Klein died, and today fashion mourned Roxanne Lowit, who was among the first photographers to romance the behind-the-scenes action at runway shows.