The American designer has announced the exit from his own label, Tom Ford, after 13 years in business
is leaving the brand he began. The news comes with the release of his final ready-to-wear Autumn/Winter 2023 collection, which whips through the designer’s own archives and reissues some of his dazzling, favourite looks from the label’s storied history.The re-editions offer a chance to take stock of precisely what the Texas-born designer stood for. Tom Ford was defined by a glitzy and confident glamour that could be easily epitomised in a business strategy – ’sex sells’. And that it did.
Iconic, steamy advertising campaigns – including one where a model’s pubic hair was shaved into the shape of Gucci’s logo – were rejected by advertising watchdogs but further stood to prove what Ford’s defiant vision for fashion was. After the Gucci group acquired , Ford led the creative direction for both brands, before leaving the Gucci Group in 2004. He then launched his own label under his name, which continued his perfectly crafted world of heady and hedonistic glamour.
Now exiting Tom Ford, and in turn, fashion in general, this assuredly won’t be the last we see of the designer. His critically acclaimed, aesthetically beautiful films such as
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