Rob Haskell speaks to TomFord on becoming the new chairman of the CFDA and global ambitions for American fashion in Vogue's September issue.
, of that sort of louche, highly sexualized, alcoholically lubricated, touchable, kissable, slip-your-hand-into-the-blouse thing that no one had seen on the runway in a long time. There had been a complete shutdown of sexuality after having sex in an era when you could die from it.” He believes his clothing hasn’t changed much since then, and that has been by design: Figure out what you do well, repeat it so forcefully that it becomes unmistakable.
Over the course of a decade, Ford has secured the status of a singular Hollywood auteur. His friend Lee Daniels, who was promoting, feels that if it weren’t for industry isolationism, Ford might have had to think about where to position a statuette in his otherwise tchotchke-less houses. “Had he not been Tom Ford, he would have been nominated for an Academy Award for that film,” Daniels says. “People take him seriously now. His moviemaking has the shock of truth. It has a wicked sense of humor.
The CFDA, whose mission is to enlarge the profile of American fashion globally, oversees a packed calendar of runway shows and seminars, not to mention the major awards night each spring that honors the best of American design. Having spent three decades working in Europe, Ford is in a unique position to consider the challenges that face the sometimes insular American industry.
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