Haider Ackermann - Designer, Creative Director of Canada Goose & Tom Ford

[Lola701]

who is the toxic one? Haider? I always thought he came across like such a lovely person? Is that not the case??? Is anyone actually nice?

You can be a lovely person and difficult to work with. He is known to be difficult but that doesn’t mean that he is a nasty person.

yes haider &co to the team

He is still planning to move the studio to Paris no? So currently they are working in the London studio?

 

[carla56]

I had feedback from some seamstresses who work in Milan who didn’t know him as they are not fashion followers, saying he is lovely with them, very demanding but extremely gentle and charming

 

[Kanzai]

Interesting that his pre fall collection (it's called fall 2025 on the website though) has already been for sale. Very commercial yet luxe looking.

Women's Fall Fashion - 2025 Collection | TOM FORD Fashion | Tom Ford Fashion

Discover the latest women's fall fashion for 2025 at TOM FORD Fashion. Explore elegant fall apparel, stylish wear, and trendy outfits for the season.

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Tom Ford

 

[Salvatore]

I like it. That's a beautiful shade of purple.

 

[PDFSD]

You can be a lovely person and difficult to work with. He is known to be difficult but that doesn’t mean that he is a nasty person.

He is still planning to move the studio to Paris no? So currently they are working in the London studio?

i will explain it like this , i know 2 people that work with him in Berlutti days separately the both disliked their time with him and i did not even ask them how it was working with him. (comments were from rude/arrogant never in office..... to never again pls he is nice to important people but trash to the team)

at TF its people that was looking forward working with him (because thy went off on first impressions and now they don't .

i did not ask about paris update yet ( but some people moved to paris already i noticed i don't know if its for personal reasons or office related.)

I dont think seamstress are the ones first line of receiving offensive behavior like the door man or receptionist , its often the inner design team in review meetings while working on the collections etc

people that display this behavior know how to keep it to a circle so its not public knowledge or the same experience to the rest of the company. (from my experiences)

 

[tricotineacetat]

Interesting that his pre fall collection (it's called fall 2025 on the website though) has already been for sale. Very commercial yet luxe looking.

Women's Fall Fashion - 2025 Collection | TOM FORD Fashion | Tom Ford Fashion

Discover the latest women's fall fashion for 2025 at TOM FORD Fashion. Explore elegant fall apparel, stylish wear, and trendy outfits for the season.

www.tomfordfashion.com

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Tom Ford

Hmmm, I’m not sure the pre-collection was already designed by Haider but rather by the in-house design team, as is usually the case during such transitioning periods.

The women’s tailored jackets from the same collection look very much like the models carried through from the seasons prior, not at all like the ones seen in Haider’s show, which are very much in the cut and styling people have known him for.

 

[Demna]

Interesting that his pre fall collection (it's called fall 2025 on the website though) has already been for sale. Very commercial yet luxe looking.

Women's Fall Fashion - 2025 Collection | TOM FORD Fashion | Tom Ford Fashion

Discover the latest women's fall fashion for 2025 at TOM FORD Fashion. Explore elegant fall apparel, stylish wear, and trendy outfits for the season.

www.tomfordfashion.com

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Tom Ford

Haider did not work on this.

 

[Lola701]

They needs to redesign that website. It’s a catastrophe!
Zegna and Thom Browne’s websites are far more superior to this. Nevertheless, it’s great that they are finally shipping internationally. Hopefully, Tom Ford beauty’s website will follow that path.

And no the pre-collection wasn’t designed by Haider. But I wonder if Haider wasn’t involved in the visuals. They have that moody vibe from his show.

 

[Phuel]

^^^LOL That eyesore of a website has been in need of a redesign for over a decade. The neglect is hilariously a display of cluelessness— or just blatant arrogance, at this point. Likely both.

I dont think seamstress are the ones first line of receiving offensive behavior like the door man or receptionist , its often the inner design team in review meetings while working on the collections etc

people that display this behavior know how to keep it to a circle so its not public knowledge or the same experience to the rest of the company. (from my experiences)

Excellent excellent excellent point, PDFSD.

It’s unfortunately become protocol, expected and even organic in the industry to curb one’s treatment of people according to caste. The cheapness of character that permeates throughout the most exclusive and most rarified positions never really go away for some.

 

[SpeedRacer666]

Some of the Haider-designed stuff is now online

 

[tricotineacetat]

I’m curious to see if the enthusiasm by the industry is picked up by the customers in the end. The suits are nice, certainly better than any Haider has created at his own brand - Then again, not a surprise with a partner like Zegna producing it.

I find the dresses and blouses not particularly exciting, though. The cuts are unimaginative, you’d be forgiven to think they came from the imagination of a menswear designer attempting to do womenswear for the first time - A little bit like what we associate with people like Raf Simons or Hedi Slimane when they took on Jil Sander and Saint Laurent respectively.

I want to see how Haider settles in at Tom
Ford and gets comfortable with the brand - His debut collection worked well as a first teaser and the next few collections will have to deliver steadily more or else he will prove to be limited in his vocabulary.

 

[Frederic01]

IMMACULATE STYLE

 

[Olaffo]

I’m curious to see if the enthusiasm by the industry is picked up by the customers in the end.

There is certainly interest from the customers side due to large volume of pre orders. Asp they’re smart because you couldn’t open internet without looking on A level stars wearing looks from that collections everywhere. Like the tuxedo worn by Adrien Brody to Cannes - I’d sell my kidney for that. Prices are absolutely eye watering but well…maybe one needs to get one’s eyes watered to actually be able to afford that…

 

[Lola701]

Now that we have a show, a campaign, early drop for the collection, it will be interesting to see everything unfold overtime.
Haider’s collection will live with the pré-collection from the team. His full vision will not be complete maybe before 1 year and a half (once the beauty and fashion side will be one, and his work will represent more in stores than the classics from TF).

I’m curious to see what he will keep from Tom in terms of products.

And yes, showing in Paris…A store for womenswear is needed.

 

[LadyJunon]

Now that we have a show, a campaign, early drop for the collection, it will be interesting to see everything unfold overtime.
Haider’s collection will live with the pré-collection from the team. His full vision will not be complete maybe before 1 year and a half (once the beauty and fashion side will be one, and his work will represent more in stores than the classics from TF).

I’m curious to see what he will keep from Tom in terms of products.

And yes, showing in Paris…A store for womenswear is needed.

Assuming that he stays, his vision for TF will be fully implemented for this time next year. By then, he should've presented his third collection (Winter 26) with his fourth (Summer 27) on the way, his second (Summer 26) should already be in stores and the last residues of old TF should've been cycled out.

For now though, I have to say that the TF team has been doing a really good job with the Ackermann era so far. They stayed mostly quiet until they actually had a collection to market, then pretty much pulled all of the stops from there: Madonna at the MET, Miley Cyrus in a runway look, Chamalet at the David di Donatello Awards, several appearances in Cannes.

You can tell that every party here actually wants to put in the work to make this project succeed. Can't say the same for Burton's Givenchy.