Tom Ford is in Love with His Therapist

Tom Ford won "Menswear Designer of the Year" at this week's Council of Fashion Designers of America annual awards in New York. Each of the menswear nominees did a spoof segment of the HBO series In Treatment.

Watch Tom Ford emote, AFTER THE JUMP...

Tom would also like you to be okay with penises.

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Tom Ford for Hong Kong's Prestige [tr]
Tom Ford Says He's Going to Father a Child in 2008 [tr]
Tom Ford is a Fantastic Man [tr]

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Tom Ford for Hong Kong's Prestige

A commenter in the earlier Marc Jacobs post snarked, where is the obligatory Tom Ford post? Since I don't aim to disappoint, here you go. Ford shows off one of his holes for the latest issue of Hong Kong's Prestige magazine. Hey, at least it's not this look again.

And here's the full interview to go along with it, along with one of the questions.

I’ve heard that you’re a hygiene fanatic who takes baths three times a day.

I take baths, yes, but it’s really nothing to do with hygiene. Sometimes at my ranch, I won’t bathe for three or four days. I take baths because when I’m in the city and working, I find it relaxing when I get up in the morning and need to wake up slowly. I’m not a great morning person, so I lie in a hot bathtub and just kind of come to life. Then I take a bath before I go out to dinner, as I’m exhausted by the day and I feel like I need to lie in that bathtub, so I can put on a crisp shirt and go out to dinner and then when I come home I want to lie in the bath and wash all the cigarette smoke off myself from wherever I’ve just been . . . and just relax enough so I can go to sleep . . . because I don’t sleep very well. So it isn’t a cleanliness thing. In fact, I think Americans are often too clean. And sometimes I don’t use soap when I take these baths. The goal isn’t to soap myself up and scrub everything off. It’s just to sort of lie in the hot water. It’s relaxation.

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Tom Ford Says He's Going to Father a Child in 2008

At least that's what he's telling Fantastic Man magazine, and he's not waiting around for partner Richard Buckley to do it:

Says Ford: "I'm going to have a kid in 2008. Richard knows I've wanted this for a long time. He's just resisted it. He would be a spectacular father. It's going to give his life new meaning...I'm a lot younger. If things follow their natural order he'll [Richard] probably leave the planet ahead of me and I can't not have had something I've wanted forever. I've always wanted kids. I don't want to get to 75 years old and just have made a lot of dresses, done some houses."

If he wants it in 2008 he better get moving as he has another three weeks.

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Tom Ford is a Fantastic Man

Tom Ford appears to be making the magazine cover rounds this month. In addition to Russian GQ, the designer brings his trademark brood to the cover of Fantastic Man.

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Tom Ford to Direct Adaptation of Gay Isherwood Novel? [tr]
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Tom Ford Does GQ Russia

Russia is treated to the brooding gaze and meticulously groomed body hair of Tom Ford courtesy of the March issue of GQ Russia. Catch a rare glimpse of his hirsuteness wearing color.

In other news from the towel-snapping would-be film director, his menswear collection went on sale in the UK for the first time at Harrod's in London this week, and Erykah Badu has been named as the face of his new fragrance.

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Tom Ford Explores His Foot Fetish

Here's the first image from Tom Ford's new eyewear campaign shot by Terry Richardson and featuring model Jon Kortajarena. No doubt raunchier images are to come.

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Tom Ford to Direct Adaptation of Gay Isherwood Novel?

Fashion designer and towel-snapper Tom Ford's film career may not yet be over after all.

WWD reports: "Word is that Ford has set his eyes on directing the movie adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel, A Single Man. Few details could be learned, and his spokeswoman did not return calls for comment, but the book depicts a day in the life of a gay man in Los Angeles — a notion that Hollywood resident Ford should be all too familiar with. Ford launched his namesake men's bespoke business earlier this year, but has made no secret of his ambitions to break into the movie game since leaving Gucci Group in 2004."

No doubt Ford will insert himself into the film in his own Hitchcock-style cameo.

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Tom Ford: "I'm an Equal Opportunity Objectifier"

OUT has been publishing several outtakes from their November issue's saucy Tom Ford shoot in which he talks about his recent quest to become a film director, as well as how he feels about dressing appropriately for one's age (or undressing appropriately as the case may be).

One (NSFW) shot that was too hot for the magazine and riffs on his recent fragrance campaign can be seen by clicking on the photo above.

Said Ford: "It was meant to be a play on the new campaign, but there’s a double standard with featuring female nudity and featuring male nudity. When people say to me, 'Well, you objectify women,' [I say,] I’m an equal opportunity objectifier."

For more on the "male fragrance ad" and to see the shoot and Tom in all his bare-assed glory, head on over to OUT.

Product Placement [out]

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Tom Ford is a Towel Snapper

Tom Ford, whose latest ads have extolled the power of his masculinity over red-nailed women, takes an entirely different turn in the forthcoming issue of OUT, showing that he has just as much influence over the boys. Well, at least he tries to get their attention by snapping their asses with towels.

According to New York magazine, "Ford said he made sure to compliment his fellow models' natural endowments in the shower but assured the mag that it didn't make the pair uncomfortable. 'They sense from me that I'm not going to give one of them a blow job,' he said. 'I just don't do that.'"

Photos by Terry Richardson for OUT.

Click here for the uncensored (WARNING: NSFW) towel-snapping action.

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NYT: Tom Ford Boutique All Spectacle, No Service

The New York Times' Horacio Silva drops in to Tom Ford's recently opened Madison Avenue flagship store and is virtually ignored. Silva: "If my walk-in is any indication, Mr. Ford has confused exclusionary with exclusive." Until the next day, when Silva made an appointment using his own name. Suddenly, "it was Champagne and smiles all around."

Ford has continually touted the emphasis on service and a set of highly-publicized maids and butlers that are supposed to lend the boutique that element, but Silva found a different story:

"When I heard that Mr. Ford had appointed an in-store maid, I assumed that it was a marketing ploy and that a modelesque stunner would walk around in high heels and a feather duster, playfully spanking the hedge-fund guys who were prepared to drop a pretty penny on, say, silk pajamas ($1,900, monogram not included). Not to my taste, by any means, but it would have been a cheeky gesture in keeping with the winking sexual provocation for which he was known at Gucci. The last thing I expected was a display of help-as-spectacle that reminded me of the Brazilian haute department store Daslu, which employs hundreds of maids for the benefit of traveling robber-baron princesses. The security guards and curtained windows brought to mind the closed-door policy of Bijan in the ’80s, a shop that is now confined to the annals of retail history."

Shape up, Mr. Ford, is Silva's conclusion:

"An unintentionally hilarious parody of a pretentious Madison Avenue boutique, the store reeks of arriviste Anglophilic posturing dressed up as aristocratic gentlemanly refinement. For all the preopening ballyhoo about the it’s-all-about-you customization and details like buttons on trouser cuffs so that your butler can brush away the remains of the day — at last! — the reality is more akin to a luxury store in a second-tier market during the mid-’90s."

Ouch.

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Tom Ford to Open Butler-Staffed NYC Men's Luxury Bachelor Pad

New York magazine reports on the run-up to the opening of Tom Ford's new 8,680-square-foot Madison Avenue (@ 70th) store on Thursday, which apparently contains a preponderance of beaver and butler throughout:

"Early this afternoon, Ford, dressed in a three-piece suit and pocket square, gave a private tour to select reporters. Cathy Horyn and Eric Wilson from the Times were both there; so was Time Style & Design editor Kate Betts, a former Harper's Bazaar chief. The place is quintessential Ford, dripping with sex. There are beaver rugs throughout — wink, wink — and a giant metalwork sculpture in the foyer that's also very beaverlike. The place is designed to look like and feel like a fancy residence — there are butlers and housekeepers (dressed in traditional uniform) who circulate. There's a hidden elevator with upholstered walls, fireplaces, a bar and, you guessed it, smoking jackets."

Ford told Women's Wear Daily he asked himself where Cary Grant might shop if he were alive today: "This is the new incarnation of [my brand], and the official incarnation. I gave a big part of myself to what I did at Gucci and Saint Laurent, and then, when I left, I took that with me. You would walk in here and be able to see certain similarities...The downstairs room is a copy of our house in London. Richard [Buckley, his partner] is not going to be very happy when he sees it. I even took some pieces out of it. I just shipped them over. You have to really look into yourself and think, 'What is it that I like? What am I am about?' and then try to make it mean something."

Ford adds that for him it's all about service (though it's unlikely you'll find him there buffing the Karshner triplets — see photo): "I want someone to say, 'Hello' when you walk in. I want someone to call you sir, or, if they know your name, Mr., or Ms., or Mrs. I want them to get you a Diet Coke if that is what you want. I want them to be nice to you with a smile, and I want them to be knowledgeable about the product and to be able to tell you about it, or if you don't want to listen to them, to not tell you about it. I like it when someone calls me sir, or Mr. Ford. Maybe I've been living in England too long."

The new shop is to be open by appointment from 7-11 am and again from 5-7 pm. Between those hours, it's open to all.

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Tom Ford Famous for Not Wearing Underwear

At least that's what he's telling people, according to Page Six:

"I always go commando; I never wear underwear. Want to see? I'll prove it to you. I'm famous for not wearing underwear. My mother keeps saying, 'Please stop telling people you don't wear underwear.'"

And don't accuse Ford of wearing colored socks either.

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Gays win in Hong Kong. The government has decided not to appeal a ruling that declared its ban on gay sex under the age of 21 unconstitutional. The law made gay sex under the age of 21 punishable by life imprisonment. Said, William Leung, the 20-year-old who challenged the law: "When you have a law that says committing certain things can put you in jail for life, it must be something really bad. It has to be something like serial murder or trafficking arms in huge quantities ... (not) being gay and having a fulfilling gay relationship."

Ryan Philippe: Scarface.

Pet Shop Boys "suave and lovable" in NYC concert, which was the second concert in recent memory to prominently feature a message about the misguided leaders George Bush and Tony Blair: "The concert was a reminder that these two have kept busy, recording elegant pop songs that often manage to be sly and silly at the same time."

Conservative UK Party forges agreement with gay rights organization Stonewall: "It seems to us absolutely the right thing to do. It’s not just about gay, lesbian and bisexual people . . . people should see us as a party that is inclusive and respectful of everyone in society. We haven’t always been seen as that."

Extract from Indian plant may provide key to safe, sunless tan based on experiments with rodents: "To our amazement the mice started to turn really dark, virtually jet black."

Dissecting the McConaughey bulge.

Vanity tacos: "Tom Ford was spotted at Tacqueria, a high-priced taco stand in London's Notting Hill neighborhood, swilling margaritas with Vanity Fair fashion guru Elizabeth Saltzman and writer/director Chris Weitz (presumably in the city to prep his adaptation of Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Material'). Ford asked the manager to turn down the lights above their table. Mission accomplished, he said, 'Great. Now we all look even more beautiful.'"

Which rising male R&B star likes to get friendly with the guys?

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I'm Sorry, What's This Book About?

There was some sort of big to-do the other night at Bergdorf Goodman for a new book on the former Gucci designer which is being released on November 1st, slipcased in white cabra leather for $350 (for those who don't need to ask) with an alternative version (for the little people) retailing for $125. All books come clearly labeled.

Recent: Tom Ford's Intermission

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