Tom Ford Famous Fashion Designer

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Tom Ford is an American famous fashion designer. He is well known within the fashion industry for his Gucci, one of the most powerful fashion houses in the world.

Tom ford was born in Texas in 1962. Tom spent his teenage years in Santa Fe, New Mexico a place at New York University. It was there he expose the seminal Studio 54 nightclub, where he met pop artist Andy Warhol for the first time. Signing up as a model at one point he had no fewer than 12 TV commercials running at the same time and he dropped out of NYU after his freshman year and then changed tack.

Tom Ford went on to become not certain the most influential designer of the last decade. He studied interior architecture at Parsons School of Design until 1986 and went on to take positions at Perry Ellis and Cathy Hardwick before joining Gucci in 1990.

In his first year at the helm, he was credited with putting the glamour back into fashion introducing skinny satin shirts and car-finish metallic patent boots. In 1995, he brought in French stylist Carine Roitfeld and photographer Mario Testino to create a series of new, modern ad campaigns for the company. In 2000, Ford was Best International Designer at the first VH1 Vogue Awards in New York.

After Gucci bought a controlling stake in Yves Saint Laurent, Ford was appointed creative director of YSL and communications director of the house's ready-to-wear business, while continuing to design for Gucci. A mighty challenge certainly but Ford was adamant he could keep the two labels distinct. It's just that Gucci is a little more obvious than Saint Laurent. The YSL woman might tie her boyfriend up and drip hot wax on him before they have sex, for instance. The Gucci woman is just going to have sex.

Ford believes that his success not to talent but to his energy. He admits to sleeping just two or three hours per night and keeping post-it notes beside the bed in case he wakes up with an idea. Tom thinks, there are many more talented designers than me, he once told an audience at the V&A in London. He said "I am lucky and mass-market tastes." He credits his "mainstream" appeal.

Ford's secret is the combination of a fine commercial sensibility and a genuine feel for fashion in his former role at Gucci, he designed shoes, watches, luggage and men's and women swear as well as planning the company's advertising campaigns and overseeing the development of their two new fragrances, Envy and Rush.

Celebrities friends are Ford's style include Madonna, Bianca Jagger and Trudie Styler. Ford's ultimate sign of approval came from his mother, who was heard to demand her YSL discount card after watching his first runway show for the house.

In April 2004, Ford parted company with the Gucci group after he and CEO Domenico de Sole, who is credited as Ford's partner in the success story that is Gucci and failed to agree with PPR bosses over creative control of the Group. His final show for YSL was a celebrity-studded affair as fans including fellow designers Diane Von Furstenberg, Valentino and Stella McCartney gathered to support and celebrate Ford's work.

Having made no secret of the fact that he did not expect to be designing forever, Ford was rumoured to be making a beeline for Hollywood when his Gucci reign came to an end. Included on his list of lifetime to-dos are having children and making a film. "That is the ultimate design project and he says."You did not just get to design what people wear, but you design the whole world and whether characters get to live or die. There is a durability to film that fashion lacks."

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