Tom Ford Mens S/S 2015 London

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JUNE 24, 2014
LONDON
By Tim Blanks

So Tom Ford wasn't kidding when he told Style.com he was off suits. Here he stood in front of his Spring presentation in a safari jacket and T-shirt, looking all the better for his newly relaxed guise. Further evidence: There was exactly one suit in the show. It featured a different construction from the sleek sartoria that has won Ford his loyal following of hedge fund he-men.

For Spring, Ford was thinking about what such men would want for their days off. There was a typically Fordian aperçu—"Everyone likes to look sexy for the weekend"—to accompany an expanded denim line, all made in the USA (the only part of his collection that isn't produced in Italy). The designer was particularly taken with the way his jeans cupped the butt. He showed them for evening with an animal-print silk tux jacket.

That easy sportswear luxe is a category Ford is keen to grow, hence Spring's re-emphasis. He's addressing his own needs, too. Family life places different demands on a guy's wardrobe. And, maybe because some of Ford's family life is in Santa Fe, there was a Western flavor to his new collection: fringed suede jackets; denim cowboy shirts; desert boots in leather, based on a pair his husband, Richard, has been wearing since the sixties. Ford remarked on the passing resemblance one of his models had to Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro, who made the West a little bit wilder in Lonesome Cowboys. There was little chance Ford's own cowboys would let themselves get so down and dirty in his fringed suede. Developed specially for him, plush as the most luxurious velvet, dyed in shades so edible they made you hungry, it was hardly skin as we know it. "Cashmere suede," he called it. It was just the kind of secret weapon a smart cookie needs to fire up his sportswear business.

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[honeycombchild]

Wow, this really is the most casual I've seen the collection be.

I do like it, however it just looks like you're going to be able to purchase every last piece in some variation in Zara come SS15.

 

[dior_couture1245]

I LOVE it. So sexy and cheesy but great. The fit of the jeans look fantastic. And I'm a total sucker for any western jacket in suede...especially if it's fringed.

 

[HeatherAnne]

I'm unabashedly nuts about this It's nice to see Tom have fun with a collection, and throw a nod to his Texas/New Mexico roots. And yeah, there's not the usual suiting, but everything is still so lux.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

Great jackets, especially the first one

 

[valliaddict]

Ummm…..am I looking at the same collection as you guys? I could literally find all of these pieces at my local mall.

 

[pen6693]

Yes to all of this. It's not out there, but the styling is great.

 

[CholoChic]

nice clothes

 

[IamRollergirl]

Actual manly clothes that men will probably really wear. How refreshing. Thank you for the lovely collection.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

I'm usually the first person to bash this kind of collection.

But there is a very sexy vibe about the lookbook that makes it very attractive to me.

 

[vetements]

Beautiful collection and his quality is superb as always...that said, it also looks like the TF man became a Saint Laurent wannabe but somewhat became undecided soon after... lol

 

[Illithid Dude]

Beautiful collection and his quality is superb as always...that said, it also looks like the TF man became a Saint Laurent wannabe but somewhat became undecided soon after... lol

Basically how I feel about this collection. I'm not sure why TFS likes this so much, but hates Saint Laurent, since this is basically a watered down, boring version of Saint Laurent.

 

[eugenius]

Are we looking at the same YSL? To me, it looks more in tune w/ Tom's old YSL men's collections from over a decade ago than what Hedi (and certainly Stefano) showed.

 

[MyNameIs]

however it just looks like you're going to be able to purchase every last piece in some variation in Zara come SS15.

And this is bad how?

 

[vetements]

And this is bad how?

I think in this day and time, most stuff that we see from a designer is likely to either end up in H&M, Zara, Topshop, Topman, F21, River Island and the likes anyways.

What`s different is the quality, we often see Chanel quilted jackets-knockoff at Zara but of course we all know it s not the real thing (some are easier to tell than the other but still, they are not the same thing).

 

[HeatherAnne]

Exactly, NO you could not go pick something up like this at a high-street store. You can tell even just looking at the pictures how lux the fabrics are. Yes, you could find knockoffs, but they aren't going to scream to be touched like these leathers and suedes, or tailed to absolute perfection like this. That is what keeps this collection from being hokey.

 

[kasper!]

Are we looking at the same YSL? To me, it looks more in tune w/ Tom's old YSL men's collections from over a decade ago than what Hedi (and certainly Stefano) showed.

So true, I don't understand why people keep talking about Hedi..