"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”
- Aristotle
Who knew that Aristotle and Tom Ford had something in common?
Tom Ford made his much-anticipated return to womenswear after six LONG years this past week at New York Fashion Week. But you won't see his designs on Style.com, or Vogue, or any other fashion media outlet. He is keeping his show under wraps until it debuts on his website in December. Instead, the designer opted to have a small celebrity-infused unveiling that he narrated himself.
Here is his reasoning:
This fashion immediacy thing — yes, if you can order the clothes immediately, if you can see them and press a button and they can be shipped to your house, I get fashion immediacy.…I don’t get the need for this immediacy. In fact, I think it’s bad.
The way the system works now, you see the clothes, within an hour or so they’re online, the world sees them. They don’t get to a store for six months. The next week, young celebrity girls are wearing them on red carpets. They’re in every magazine. The customer is bored with those clothes by the time they get to the store. They’re overexposed, you’re tired of them, they’ve lost their freshness, you see somebody wearing it and you say, “Oh, that’s that jacket that was in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.” Or [a] customer doesn’t want to wear that jacket that was in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. In addition, all of the fast-fashion companies that do a great job, by the way, knock everything off. So it’s everywhere all over the streets in three months and by the time you get it to the store, what’s the point?
I’m holding everything back, controlling all the photography. I’m sure there were some leaks last night from people shooting with cell phones. I wish that that hadn’t happened. I don’t know if it did — I’m sure it did. I’m holding the photography back. I’m holding all the clothes back. The clothes are not going out to magazines before January issues. The clothes are not going to celebrities before December. The images are not being released online until December, when they’ll go online on my Web site.
I must say he does have a point…
As he suspected, there are a few leaked photos from the show of his Spring 2011 line.
Here are the stars of his show:
Miss "put a ring on it" Beyonce
Miss "I'm an beer heiress" Daphne Guinness
And the rest of the Tom Ford players…
(Sources- WWD.com and NYmag.com)
I guess the rest of us with have to wait until December!
But if you need a Ford fix, make sure and check out his movie, "A Single Man" on DVD.
Still needing instant gratification?? Check out the Tom Ford sunglasses below. I MUST have the cat eye glasses!
