INTERVIEW
A design for life Designer Tom Ford on fashion, far-off destinations and failing to look comfortable on a yacht. By Frank Grice
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hen you have an eye for fashion that’s as skilled, exacting and enabling as Tom Ford’s, it opens up a whole world of opportunity and, if you want to pursue it, excess. The 58-year-old Texan, a globally renowned fashion supremo who doubles as an accomplished filmmaker, has a hand so tightly gripped on the industry that people hang off his very word, off each new collection, off every plain black t-shirt. And yet, what makes Tom Ford so effortlessly likeable isn’t his pursuit of largeness and grandiosity – it is in fact a desire to make the very simple things as perfect as possible. “To complicate is to bring about a level of discomfort and chaos that I don’t think any of us want in our lives,” he begins. “In the way we all live, there is enough commotion and distress, and I think if I ever started
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