Tom Ford

Also known as Thomas Carlyle Ford, Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford

American fashion designer and filmmaker (born 1961)

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Works: 7

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Film & TV

Directing · Austin, Texas, USA

Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label before directing the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Ford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Armani and the Birth of Italian Fashion2026
Karl — Self2025
Victoria Beckham — Self2025
Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion — Self2024
In Vogue: The 90s — Self2024
Arianne Phillips: Dressing the Part — Self2021
The Gospel According to André — Self2018
Top Gear America — Self - Presenter2017
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self2015
Mademoiselle C — Self2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1919-02-13
Active to: 1991-10-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 24,479
Total plays: 79,807

Recent publications · Crossref

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Quotes

“You can only make the slit so much higher, the stiletto so much taller.”
“I guess I'm hyper-self-conscious about people thinking that I'm egotistical, but there's a difference between being egotistical and knowing your value as a product and an actor. I know my value as a product, and I've divorced myself as a human from myself as a product.”
“... style without substance is nothing, the substance in the story was the most important thing. Of course, there is a layer of style. If I were a director working in a different era, I would have had to be at MGM. I don't think I'd probably know how to make anything but enhanced reality, because that's what comes naturally to me.”
“I believe in a parallel universe of image and fantasy that isn't so much fantasy as it is forever sealed in films and things that have entertained us for years. This parallel universe has influenced me perhaps even more than the real world or the physical world. Because when I think of certain things, like a beautiful woman, its most likely someone I saw on film... these are things I've been taking from film or television and applying it to real life.”

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Key facts

Born: Thomas Carlyle Ford , ( 1961-08-27 ) August 27, 1961 (age 64) , Austin, Texas , U.S.
Occupations: Fashion designer filmmaker
Spouse: Richard Buckley ( married"}]]}'>m. 2014 ; died 2021 )

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Official website: www.tomford.com
Image: Tom Ford 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra).jpg

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Commons category: Tom Ford
date of birth: 1961-08-27
birth name: Thomas Carlyle Ford
name in native language: Tom Ford
start of work period: 1988-00-00
social media followers: 147134

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Article

Thomas Carlyle Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer and filmmaker. He launched his eponymous fashion brand in 2005, having previously been the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. He wrote and directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016), and served as chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America from 2019 to 2022.

Early life