If one would have to describe the Tom Ford Fall/Winter collection on the basis of a plane ticket, it would definitely be a one way Texas to London flight. A year ago the adventure of the Tom Ford scheduled shows at London Fashion Week started, with a cross-cultural multi-ethnic collection, in other words more is more and maximalism is the norm followed by a powerful, powerful, powerful and feminine sex shaped collection playing with hiding and showing body. Now arrived in 2014, Ford brought on the runway his homage to his two homes in Santa Fe, New Mexico and London, this homage is timely inspired by a visit to the crazy 60’s.
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I took me a night to get chummed up with this new collection, as one the first view it was very sporty, plain and french chic like. The so famous Tom Ford shape got a break and the tops and skirts were more loose this season. Velvet and Pony Skin were among the chosen fabrics to a lot of black and a little red and white. But with a closer look at these pieces, one can clearly see that Tom Ford knows again what his clients do not know yet that they want.
Yes, there were cowgirl boots, in black, white and animal prints, the latter ones did not quite work, but with these boots you will not hit on sandy ranches in Texas, but on the glass floors and red carpets of Monaco and Moscow clubs. There were looks even reminding of an Carine Roitfeld moment, with masculine straight sunglasses and a white shirt suit with black boots and fur top. It is a collection that will sell, simply because you can wear most of the pieces and combine them endlessly.
Mesh tights gave the rock-star feeling to the collection, and so it was no surprise Georgia May Jagger was among the model-cast. The music swinging from cool to disco (Paloma Faith & Avicii) showed the modern Tom Ford with love to pop culture. Which in recent days used him in plenty of songs, most famously Mr Carter, Jay-Z! You do not need ecstasy when wearing Tom Ford and so he doesn’t pop molly but rocks Tom Ford. Here comes Ford again and bringing two sequinned football jerseys with the year of his birth 61′ and the crossed molly, a ‘knock off’ to Jay-Z’s T-shirt he was wearing on one of his concerts last year with the difference that the fake jersey was 65$ and the Ford version will be 6500$. Tom Ford is not only expert in design but also PR, securing him many tweets and Instagram pics with these outfits. The open question now is, how long will we have to wait till Beyoncé wears this outfit?
And beside the many black looks ( Tom Ford’s favourite colour and which one can never have enough of in your wardrobe) he stayed to his core values for winter, some fiery red, pink and ginger combined fur coats ensuring no Tom Ford girl will have to freeze in Gstaad and Moritz. The only thing that did not work on a night of rockstar glamour where the leopard and animals printed looks with way to much déjà vu from last season’s Cavalli’s and Burberry’s collections.
Yes, Tom Ford surprised everyone by bringing the unexpected to runway but do not think for a second that the Tom Ford Girl would do anything else than first class on her flight from Texas to London, we still talk luxury fashion baby.
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