Ford stay or go? And it cleared the way for a new designer.
Still, the collection answered the question that had been hanging over the brand since its sale in November: Would Mr. Neither Estée Lauder nor Zegna, which has the license for Tom Ford fashion, could be reached for comment. The videos came unaccompanied by any statement, and Mr. Outside, the designer himself, in signature dark suit, white shirt and dark glasses, walks by alone, barely visible in the dimness, occasionally pausing to lift a hand and direct. Ford’s last 13 years and variously writhing, strutting and otherwise emoting while trapped in a series of glass boxes. They feature a bevy of supermodels (Amber Valletta, Karlie Kloss, Karen Elson, Joan Smalls) wearing archive designs from Mr. On Wednesday, he dropped a surprise “final collection” (according to a news release) in the form of three short videos by the photographer Steven Klein. Almost 30 years after he transformed Gucci, seemingly overnight, from a bourgeois leather brand to the hottest thing in fashion, ultimately making it into the cornerstone of the luxury group PPR (now Kering) about 20 years after he shocked the industry by walking away from that job, as well as from his post at the top of Yves Saint Laurent, and announced he was going to make movies (and then made a critical hit) 13 years after he returned to fashion, this time under his own name and about five months after he and his business partner, Domenico De Sole, sold that brand to Estée Lauder for almost $3 billion, Tom Ford may be finally saying farewell to fashion.
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