Tom Ford Mania

Recently i joined the Fashion spot forum (thefashionspot.com). There's like a treasure trove of Tom interviews and Tom pictures. Great!

Here are two quotes of Tom dahling that stood out:
"Underwear is just another article of clothing to make you look fat." -Tom Ford

"Well, they can take my jacket and my pants off." - Tom Ford, when asked by the interviewer "What if somebody else wants to see your butt? "

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Rgd his eyewear collection, the first ads have already appeared in French magazines. Here is the ad


























Here's an interview with Tom by Men's style magazine rgd his eyewear launch.

When you’re launching a new sunglasses collection, who needs clothes? Not Tom Ford. As the former Gucci kingpin inches his way back into the world of men’s fashion, it’s good to see that the provocative designer hasn’t changed a bit Photographs by Jeff Burton



This one is soooo naughty.























Tom Ford sounds off on his eyewear line, his new menswear venture, and why a certain lead singer could use a makeover

So, what’s your sunglasses collection all about?
It’s very much based on iconic eyewear—beautiful tortoiseshells—so they make you think a little bit of Ari Onassis or John Kennedy, or they make you think of a classic Ray-Ban Wayfarer even though they’re not that shape. They feel like eyewear and not just trendy frames.

It’s interesting you mention JFK. I don’t recall ever seeing any of our presidents, other than him, wearing sunglasses.
You know, you may be right. I have to say I don’t, either. And it’s probably because some media person told them [not to wear sunglasses]. But let’s remember that JFK was maybe the most dashing, sexy, stylish… I mean, not many presidents can sleep with Marilyn Monroe. Monica Lewinsky is a far cry from Marilyn Monroe.

Is there a time to wear sunglasses and a time not to wear them?
I wear sunglasses all the time. But I’ll take them off if I’m having lunch with somebody or if I’m talking to somebody. For a man, there aren’t that many fashion accessories. If you’re wearing a fairly classic suit, a pair of great sunglasses instantly makes you not look like a banker. A woman has so many different things, but a man has a watch, shoes, and eyewear, and that’s kind of it.

If you were to give Bono some sunglasses advice, what would you tell him?
Oh, poor Bono. He needs some new sunglasses. I would love to see him in some heavy plastic, larger-framed glasses. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in something more classic. But then again, how can I say that? As I just said, eyeglasses are one of the few ways a man can express personality. Bono has a look, he’s got his glasses, and he feels comfortable with them the same way Elton does his. And so who am I to mess with that?

You recruited actual porn stars for this photo shoot. Is there such thing as a cool male porn star?
Well, I guess when I think of cool male porn stars, I think of ones from the ’70s. Contemporary male porn stars? They’re very waxed, very shaved, very plucked. I’m not into that. But the guy we used for this story—his name was Luca—he had a natural body and wasn’t overly waxed, and he had a nice face and a little bit of a growth on his beard. He didn’t look like a porn star. So yeah, I thought he was pretty good-looking.

You’re launching a menswear line. Why?
I think there’s a niche in the men’s market. At the high end, either you go to Savile Row or you go to a fashion company, but often its things are too trendy. So my line is a blend between an Italian fashion company and a classic tailor. There will be no fashion shows, mostly things by appointment, although there will be ready-to-wear as well. We have only a few more weeks to get our manufacturing together to make a late fall ’06 delivery. Otherwise, the whole project will be pushed off, I’m afraid, to fall ’07. The first boutique, if this all works, would open on November 1, 2006, in New York City.

Is a lot of this stuff things you’d wear yourself?
Of course. That’s basically what I’m doing: making clothes for myself and putting them in a shop. I’m serious!

I believe you. What size jacket are you, anyway?
Between a 38 and a 40. I’m a perfect model size.

So 40 regular, not long or short?
I tend to go a little bit longer with my jackets.

But it seems like suit jackets are getting shorter and shorter these days.
Well, some people’s are. And I have to say, a lot of people have gotten quite short with them, which is great if you want to be trendy. But I don’t want to see the back of my butt, so a jacket for me has to absolutely cover my butt cheeks.

What if somebody else wants to see your butt?
Well, they can take my jacket and my pants off. I just think there’s something very feminine about that, a shorter jacket and seeing a man’s butt. It’s not my taste.

Well, okay, then. So, just menswear?
No plans whatsoever for women’s ready-to-wear right now. I’m concentrating on menswear, film, fragrance, cosmetics, and eyewear. Womenswear takes an enormous amount of your time. It really takes twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. I’ve done it, I’ve been there. The best I could hope for is to sort of climb back to where I was. There are too many other things I want to do in life. —Adam Rapoport

http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/landing?id=content_4074

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Tom Ford Wears Brown
Wha shocking piece of (useless) news. I swear its a one page article in the Washington Post.
Here is the picture





























Doesnt look too "brown" too me, but whatever. i am just glad that i am getting new pictures of Tom. Here are some i found today through Google.
















He has the most yummiest smile in the whole wide world. Damn, i wish i was with him. I wish i was reborn as Richard Buckley. *sigh* I can understand why Richard would stick around for Tom all these (20?) years...But what does Tom see in Richard? Tom is way out of Richard's league if you ask me. Plus, he is against the idea of having children, which Tom wants to have. Tom, honey, i know you are gay and all, but come to me and we will make sweet love and sweet babies *drooling once more at the sight of that lovely chest hair*
Ok, i'll end my banter here.

Tom Ford...The Magician

Tom Ford appears on the cover of German GQ this month. As always, he is immaculately dressed in black and white, with just the right amount of chest hair flashing on top of this suit. Anyways, these are the same pictures that Craig McDean took for British Vogue for the November issue.

The Cover
















What's all the fuss about? Well, Tom Ford is now officially a..... magician. How so? The ease with which he seems to take everyone else's clothes off...while always being dressed to the T.

now you see clothes:




























Now you don't:





























PS: I know Tom loves the color black, so i have also changed the color theme of this blog to..BLACK

Tom Ford's Pearls of Wisdom

On boozing at Gucci:
"Five o'clock every day, man, it was cocktail hour. And those cocktails came out, trays of vodka tonics, and the whole staff would keep drinking till like nine, and we'd do that every day, every day. Because in a creative profession, sometimes loosening up is the best idea. Seriously."

On the fashion industry:
"It's like high school, too, by the way."

On his first gay experience:
"I'd just turned 18. His name's Ian Falconer. You might know him. He writes children's books."

On sleeping with men vs. women:
"I don't want to sleep with anything with thin wrists. I want to sleep with something strong and powerful. My equal. That could be a sort of match to the death. Where we're pitted against each other. It disturbs me that their wrists are thin. It disturbs me that they're willowy. That I could hurt them, that they're fragile. It makes me behave differently with them and give them latitude that I would not give to a man."

On sluts:
"If sluttiness is what you like, what's wrong with that? Why do we think being a slut's bad? Sluttiness is just a lot of freedom."

On hygiene:
"I like everybody with a touch of dirty. I mean, I'm not saying I want to go between someone's legs and find flies buzzing around there...It should be clean. But we've gotten silly about this."

On his forehead flaws:
"I have Botox right here and collagen right in my brow lines. I'm going to have some collagen put in there. It's probably because this part is all Botoxed, and so it's dead smooth. So I need to have that fixed. I noticed that the other day. Thanks for pointing it out."

Tom Ford Marry Me

Here are some absolutely gorgeous pictures of Mr. Ford






(This one is real special coz i spent so much time stitching together all these thumbnails from different sites)
























And What Shall People Eat at the Wedding, You Ask?

Since i do have some free time now, i did a search for "food blogs" on the Internet. I particularly liked this one:
http://dessertcomesfirst.blogspot.com/
Check out the pictures of the stuff by viewing the slide show. Amazing chocolate desserts.YUM!