Tom Ford

*Tom Ford
(55 years old)

27 August 1961
Austin, Texas, USA
6'0"(1,83 m)

He joined Gucci in 1990 as a designer when the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. In 1994 he was promoted to creative director. By the time he left 10 years later (in 2004), Gucci was turning over profits in excess of $4 billion per annum.

Directed one Oscar nominated performance, Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (2009).

Tom Ford was born on August 27, 1961 in Austin, Texas, USA as Thomas Carlyle Ford.

American fashion designer. He is known for his legendary turnaround of Gucci.

Grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Started his own line of menswear in 2006 after a promising liaison with Gucci and later Yves Saint Laurent.

Companion of fashion writer Richard Buckley since 1987.

If you spend an hour and a half in a movie theater, it should challenge you.

I had a tiny bit of fashion training, but not really. I had no formal training as a film director either.

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