Vanity Fair - March 2010
"The Beautiful People"
Ph: Annie Leibowitz
M: Tom Ford, Colin Firth and Julianne Moore
One film together:
A Single Man (2009).
George Falconer is a gay Englishman transplanted to Los Angeles, but that only begins to describe his sense of dislocation. George’s lover has recently been killed in a car accident, and, since it is 1962, he cannot openly express his grief: it is the bereavement that dare not speak its name. Likewise, Christopher Isherwood’s novel
A Single Man could not have become a movie in the year of its publication, 1964, but Ford—yes,
that Tom Ford, he of the tinted aviators and easy homoeroticism—was the right man to bring it to the screen. Firth, magnificent as George, mopes elegantly in his skinny-lapel suit, his handsome, tensed face not quite concealing the inner battle between his self-pity and his self-assuredness. Moore, as George’s confidante, a sozzled divorcée named Charley, is a kohl-eyed period specimen of pre-feminist compromise: at once a pathetic mess and a (slightly wobbly) pillar of fortitude.
Photographed in New York City on December 7, 2009.
but no surprise that he looked cool as f**k.B)
