Tom Ford

Tom Ford

  • Born: 1961-8-27
  • Birthplace: Austin, Texas, U.S.
  • Height: 5' 11½" (1.82 m)
  • Profession: Designer, director, screenwriter, producer
  • Nationality: America
  • Graduate School: Parsons School of Design
  • Representative Works: Single men, Nocturnal Animals
  • Tom Ford (Tom Ford), born in Austin, Texas, USA on August 27, 1961, is an American designer, director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from Parsons School of Design.
    In 1990, he served as the creative director of Gucci [1]  . In 2000, he served as the creative director of YSL. In 2005, founded the Tom Ford brand [1]  . In 2009, he directed his first film " Single Man " [2]  , which was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 66th Venice International Film Festival. In 2017, with the thriller film " Nocturnal Animals ", he was shortlisted for the 70th British Academy Film Awards-Best Director Award [3]  , and the 74th American Film and Television Golden Globe Award for Best Director in Film [4]  .

    Personal Life

    In 1986, 25-year-old Tom Ford met 38-year-old Richard Barkley (formerly the editor-in-chief of VOGUE home magazine) through Kathy Hardwick .
    In September 2012, the two adopted a child named Alexander John Barkley Ford as a testimony of their love   . In 2014, the two officially married after Obama approved same-sex marriage.

    Character Evaluation

    Tom Ford is just right about the relationship between the sexes. Not only is he fashionable, he is also a true director   . Moreover, he has a great talent for audiovisual language, and stylization has never been his goal in filming   . At the same time, unlike directors who love to weave complex narrative structures, the story lines of his films are not complicated. The professionalism and inertia of designers accumulated over the years have brought Tom Ford into the film with sensitivity to the body. His films focus more on the body and its related aesthetic elements, focusing on the display of different levels of body aesthetics. With multiple levels of psychological expression. Audiences who have seen Tom Ford's works are hardly not attracted by the ingenious costumes of the characters in the film, which reveal the exquisiteness, exquisiteness and nobility , Tencent Entertainment, Comprehensive Review of Film Review). 
    Extended Reading

    A Single Man quotes

    • Carlos: No one has ever picked me up and not wanted something.

      George: I think you picked me up.

    • Carlos: Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty.