09/25/2008
Tom Ford Dons Velvet Mafia Uniform
Is Tom Ford suiting up to join the velvet mafia? It looks that way on the cover of September's German Vanity Fair.
Last November Earlier this week, E!'s Marc Malkin reported that Ford's foray into the world of directing was coming closer to fruition:
"Sources reveal exclusively to me that it looks like Colin Firth will star as a gay college professor who deals with the sudden death of his lover. The character is helped in his efforts by a lifelong female friend and one of his students. Firth's rep tells me 'he's in discussions' but it's not a done deal. Julianne Moore will play the friend while Jamie Bell has signed for the student role, my sources say. The story takes place in 1962 in Los Angeles. No studio is attached to the project, but Ford plans to begin filming in L.A. in November."
Previously
Tom Ford to Direct Adaptation of Gay Isherwood Novel? [tr]
Posted 11:40 AM EST by Andy Towle in Books, Christopher Isherwood, Fashion Men, Film, News, Tom Ford | Permalink
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Yea, well he charges about $3,400 for one of his men's suits, so he shouldn't have any trouble financing it.
Posted by: Diogenes | Sep 25, 2008 11:51:47 AM
Yaaaaaawwwwwwnn...
Posted by: noteasilyoffended | Sep 25, 2008 12:48:15 PM
Yaaaaaawwwwwwnn...
Posted by: noteasilyoffended | Sep 25, 2008 12:48:33 PM
I'm sure the film will be about as intersting as his designs.
Posted by: Roscoe | Sep 25, 2008 12:51:21 PM
Tom Ford is embarrassing. Transparently insecure with his painstakingly self-conscious masculine persona. Stop "acting" Tom. IF you are masculine it's already inside you (via brain structure & chemistry, chromosomes, hormones). You don't ACQUIRE masculinity externally via clothes and other people's approval.
Ironically, he just comes off as a meticulous faggoty fuss-budget. I can't think of anyone less sexy or manly. Is he for real or is this performance art? Like Andy Kauffman?
He joins those other perfectedly masculine men like Nate Berkus, Anderson Cooper and John Bartlett in the rarified "I'm so manly I'm asexual" club.
NEXT performance artist please.
Posted by: Ben | Sep 25, 2008 12:53:48 PM
Thats a very special book. I remember reading it in college. I would love to see it as a movie. But, I think I would rather have it directed by someone with experience not a novice. Can't he just produce it? Anyone can produce, right?
Posted by: Alfonso | Sep 25, 2008 1:00:25 PM
In this historic election year with the worst housing market in 70 years, the economy crumbling, the trillion dollar Wall Street bailout, the balance of the Supreme Court endangered, gas and food prices soaring what we really need is more Tom Ford because he is so incredibly relevant.
...that and Dancing With The Stars.
The man is vile.
Posted by: Mark | Sep 25, 2008 1:01:05 PM
hate all you want, i still think he's as hot as they come.
Posted by: Dan B | Sep 25, 2008 1:40:00 PM
Is it velvet season already? I think he needs some fur on that jacket or maybe he just put in on his head. He is one queen bitch.
Posted by: MICHAEL | Sep 25, 2008 1:47:11 PM
According to the cover, the interview is about pubic hair toupees, badly designed coffins, and good style. Questionable taste in interview subjects seems to have been off the table.
Posted by: henry | Sep 25, 2008 1:47:43 PM
He is a worm, but the novel is beautifully written, as is all of Isherwood's work.
Posted by: Third World Man | Sep 25, 2008 1:48:48 PM
It's only Isherwood's greatest novel. I'm surprised that Don let him take out an option on it.
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Sep 25, 2008 2:09:20 PM
Look at lil' Tommy in velvet going to the Octoberfest. Bitch!!!!!
Posted by: WARREN | Sep 25, 2008 2:50:07 PM
Sheesh, lots of vitriol coming at Tom Ford... you'd think he did something to hurt out community instead of just designing clothes and accessories.
Frankly, I'm glad to see that Isherwood's genius is getting a bit of attention these days.
Posted by: The Milkman | Sep 25, 2008 2:54:59 PM
I love modern homosexuals; swooning over straight men like panting high school girls, clamouring around this unobtainable image like cock-starved wild dogs but then when you’re presented with an actual honest to god gay man you start exhibiting this vile soulless hatred.
I have never witnessed a homosexual male make a positive or even constructive remark about a gay celebrity in one of these blog comments.
It’s seems the more society start excepting us the crueller we behave towards one another. Why is that?
Do you see your own “faggoty” nature in these men? Are you jealous because they get to live the gay life you can’t? Why do you always do this?
Posted by: **** | Sep 26, 2008 4:25:51 AM
re: ****
Stop projecting: sounds like you are the one jealous of insecure faggots like Tom Ford. The avowedly gay life I am very happy to lead does not involve the sickenly affected faggotry of a poseur like Tom Ford.
The only thing worse than the mediocrity of Tom Ford is a Tom Ford apologist.
The more society chooses the WORST of us to "celebrate" the more they perpetuate our irrelevance. Really? A fashion designer is all we got? Lap it up you dumb fags.
When they start "celebrating" gay running backs, short stops and Secretaries of State I'll pay attention.
Posted by: Mark | Sep 26, 2008 11:29:20 AM