He films with purpose and a wide range of skill. But he's not just an aesthete, framing up beautiful but meaningless compositions. Much of the film takes place in Texas, and he shoots big sky and open plains with the fluency of Roger Deakins. It should come as no surprise that Tom Ford, as a wildly successful fashion designer, has an impeccable eye for aesthetics. It is a spectacular piece of filmmaking, and given last year's fairly lackluster lineup, it stands out for the following reasons:ġ. Ford's second film, Nocturnal Animals, was released last year and I think it was easily the best film of 2016. For a directorial debut, it is shockingly good.īut it was really just a prelude.
The film was nominated for a gaggle of awards, mostly for Firth's performance. He founded a film company and in 2009 directed A Single Man, a deeply sad film about a gay college professor in the 1960s, starring Colin Firth and based on a Christopher Isherwood novel. Tom Ford, like Don Draper, was a true American success story, using the alchemy of creative genius to conjure avalanches of money out of ambitious, daring advertising campaigns.įord has a preternatural gift for designing and marketing absurdly expensive clothing. By 2004, when he left, it was valued at $10 billion and synonymous with over-priced high-end fashion for wealthy assholes. When Ford joined Gucci in 1990 the company was floundering. Tom Ford, named after the essence of all things American, is perhaps this country's most talented living creative genius. To do it in two, all before cracking the age of 60 while remaining an impeccably dressed, ravishingly handsome gay icon? Practically unheard of. It is rare to be wildly successful in one hyper-competitive creative field.
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