Biography

Tom Ford was born in 1961 in Austin, Texas. As a child, he lived on the outskirts of Houston, Texas. They moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico when Tom Ford was 11 years old. He graduated from the school in 1979, then left Bard College (College of Fine Arts in New York). After that, he moved to New York City and attended an art history course at New York University. He left the university a year later to spend more time on television advertising campaigns. His life went on in such a way that at a certain time, Tom Ford appeared in more than 12 different national advertising campaigns at the same time. After that, he attended an interior design course at Parsons School of New Design to learn about interior design.

Enter the Fashion Industry

He started out as a costume designer for photography projects, which led to his love of fashion. During his final year at the School of Design, he studied fashion; However, he was able to get his degree in architecture.

After participating in several campaigns, he finally officially entered the fashion world by joining Gucci, but during this period, the Gucci brand was in a severe crisis. Gucci was looking for a major overhaul and wanted to add something new to its ready-made women’s clothing line. In 1990, Ford was hired as a senior designer of ready-made women’s clothing for the Gucci brand, and after a very short time, his role in Gucci began to grow and expand.

Over the course of six months, Ford also began designing menswear, then moving on to shoe design. He became the company’s design director in 1992, and in 1994, Tom Ford became the creative director of the Gucci brand, making his name in the fashion world. Tom’s unique and extraordinary work at Gucci can be seen in the fact that when Ford joined Gucci, Gucci was virtually bankrupt; but in 1994, the Gucci brand was worth $3.4 billion, and when Ford left Gucci in 2004, the brand was worth $ 10 billion. After Gucci acquired the Yves Saint Laurent brand, Tom Ford became the brand’s creative director; In April 2004, Ford decided to leave the brand after an argument between him and Gucci’s CEO over control of the company. It was in that year that Ford started his own company and practically launched the Tom Ford brand.

Tom Ford’s First Collection

In 2005, the Tom Ford cosmetics collection as well as the sunglasses collection were the brand’s first products, and the brand’s first menswear store opened in New York City. Over the next few years, Ford’s work won critical acclaim and the most popular designers around the world. Tom Ford’s brand is currently under intense strategic selection and international expansion, and it is planned to open 100 Tom Ford retail stores worldwide in the next ten years.

Tom Ford Perfumes

During his time in the fashion world, Tom Ford was always amazed by something, and that was nothing but cologne. Having launched several different colognes during his years working with Gucci and Joyce St. Laurent, he used his experience and skills to create several men’s colognes for the Tom Ford brand. Today, Tom Ford colognes are among the most popular and luxurious colognes in the fashion world.

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