Tom Ford In The Cover Of GQ Russia October 2011
Wow!! Did you see the pictures above!! Tom Ford took his EQ Russian his magaziine shoot to the next level. I was lucky enough to get a translated version of the magazine. Please keep in mind that this is a very rough translation and there are errors.
GQ: Mr. Ford, I am honored to be able to speak with you.
Tom: Thanks. Your dress is beautiful. What is it?
When I learned that I was going to be interviewing you, I immediately thought what am I going to wear? It would be nice to wear TOM FORD for Tom Ford. Another option was something YSL, perhaps from the period you worked there. But I knew I wouldn’t be wearing anything like that. So I put on one of my Grandmother’s dresses.
Again Wow!!!
Yes. Imagine. 1946, World War II had just ended. The city of Vologda in northern Russia. White churches, white snow, black ice and no food. Well, in general, there was just nothing. Cold and famine. Except for a fashion house. And every teacher – and my grandmother was a teacher of literature – could have a beautiful dress. This dress was sewn from German material. I think it’s crepe satin. The seams were done on a “Singer” sewing machine and the rest is hand embroidered.
Excellent! The dress is very elegant, it looks completely modern. Wonderful story, wonderful dress and on top of that it’s so meaningful. Very elegant for 1946. But no less elegant today.
Thoughts on his designs:
… about your Grandmother’s dress – charming story. As for my designs – the ones that I’m doing now, and some of what I did for Gucci – I want to believe that for someone a piece will be so special that they will save it, send it to their daughter, their granddaughter. And perhaps, after 60 years, someone will say: “It was my grandmother’s!” And someone else will say, “My God! How beautiful! “… I want my clothes to be beautiful. I want to create interesting pieces that are not thrown away and stored. That’s why my clothes are expensive. I try to create things that I can be proud of. And I hope one day, sixty years later, someone will come to work and say, “this dress used to be my grandmother’s” or “this suit was my grandfather’s.” That is the power of fashion.
On September 11th, 2001:
GQ: I love a quote from your book, it is truly brilliant… “The Power of fashion can be scary. On September 11th our New York YSL Store received 42 calls from women wanting the peasant blouse.”
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