Tom Ford S/S 2026 Paris

[Kennnnn]

This is so, so good. A little bit of Ferre, old Gucci, Alber Elbaz, Armani, Rudi Gernreich, Gaultier... but totally original, every idea wonderfully developed and realised. Sensual and sexual. My favourites were the column dresses with contrasting lining, and the long sleeved jersey (?) dresses, like molten porcelain. Every look an exercise in both audacity and restraint. Bravo.

 

[lhhbl]

This version with a different soundtrack is 10000X better. The clothes, casting, everything is perfect , dare I say he out did Tom Ford even. The models have this cold confidence but with sexual tension and angst. Easily the best show of the season, Haider is the King of Paris with this. Very cinematic clothes.

2:09 to 2:24 is just perfection!

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

I love how at a certain point this thread bifurcated into jockstrap sizes and which kind of shorts can enhance your thick, hairy thighs.

So Tom Ford.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

If I see anyone wearing this in public I'm calling in an indecency report to the police.

 

[Creative]

So overrated to a point that’s ridiculous even.

 

[GERGIN]

It’s a decent show but comparing this menswear to his Berluti era and the womenswear to his namesake label it just doesn’t inspire me the same way those collections did.

Peter Hawkings delivered such beautiful, sexy, and warm Tom Ford collections…I’m just not sold by the coldness that Haider is presenting here.

 

[carla56]

It’s a decent show but comparing this menswear to his Berluti era and the womenswear to his namesake label it just doesn’t inspire me the same way those collections did.

Peter Hawkings delivered such beautiful, sexy, and warm Tom Ford collections…I’m just not sold by the coldness that Haider is presenting here.

LOL to even dare to compare Peter Hawkins to this. I can only think of Naomi's video DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF TO ME EVER!

 

[Lola701]

I think this collection seal the deal for people regarding if Haider was a good fit for Tom Ford or not. With him now, the reputation and the status of the brand is preserved.
They don’t have to pay for Iris Law to attend a show anymore (like they did during the Hawkings era).

I hope that by SS2027, they will activate things to really feels like Haider’s Tom Ford.

The danger when someone does « sexy clothes » even more with a brand like Tom Ford, is to loose the fashion with a capital F factor.

 

[Phuel]

^^^ But this is a “sexy" that turns some people off LOOL And that can only be a good thing, as far as I’m concerned. For too long now with even Tom Ford himself, the label had devolved into a glittery disco caricature. Peter didn't help to shift from that image, either.

About the designs: Having this unshakeable standard that even a talent like Haider for a greater talent as Tom Ford to shake up new frontiers, is just setting up for disappointment. There’s nothing else in fashion to break through to anymore.

It’s when labels attempt to prove, to push, to provoke beyond what’s already been proven/pushed/provoked— and that’s not just with designs, but also with casting, with styling, with theatrics and venues, that then they end up with caricatural clownwear, on a cast of gormless headcounts, and presented on an obnoxious venue that’s a football stadium, costing million, with an attendance of paid ambassadors whom all couldn’t care less about fashion, let alone the brand. And immediately forgotten about in 20 minutes when the waste of time is over. Or it’s painfully under-qualified people lacking the creative experience and technical skills massacring a once venerable name— and immediately forgotten about in 20 minutes when the waste of time is over.

Haider’s Tom Ford shows that you don’t need to be so desperate— and even with all the heightened and stylized cinematic throbs and beats of the presentation— and there are so many references but they’re never literal, that it’s also about showcasing a refinement of the classics in a thoughtful, considerate, and complimentary way to your wearer, your customer: All that’s shown can easily make it to retail. And will be worthy investments for years and years. And that’s more inspiring, more visionary, more revolutionary than anything a designer can do in 2025. He never forgot and forsaken that dressing the human form to its best is what’s most important. And most challenging at this point in fashion.

 

[reese06]

Pretentious and old.

The jock straps, the blazers with no pants… very gimmicky. Tired and creepy to be exact.

I want to feel what everyone else seems to feel about this show. I’ve watched it three times and looked at the images. The opening three suits were probably more Tom Ford than most of what he actually produced when he was at the head.

What I liked… The three opening suits were more tom ford than tom ford was at his own label. Great execution. The lace slip dresses were beautiful.

Meh…The sheer dresses with the thongs were fine but we’ve seen them at his label. I don’t remember the menswear at all. There’s nothing there and when there is, I don’t care for his choice in textiles

A good showing overall, but one that leaves me on the outside. I can appreciate the craft, but I can’t tap into the thrill others seem to feel with Haider at Tom Ford

 

[Squizree]

The reason this collection works is because of Haider, not because of Tom.

 

[dancv]

This is the ultra sexed up version of the puritan fashion environment that we live in today. Hence the feeling of garments for a cold psychopath.

I like the collection because HA has a story to tell. The “era” of his muse has passed, she lives on an empty mansion all by herself. In the morning she gives the pool boy the best S-x he’s ever had right at the foyer while looking at herself in the antique silver backed mirror. And in the afternoon she lets the gardener eats her by the hedge of her tennis court (she doesn’t even like tennis but someone ought to use that court for something) But in the end of the day she is still cold and unreachable.

This collection will grow on me.

 

[LadyJunon]

I like the collection because HA has a story to tell. The “era” of his muse has passed, she lives on an empty mansion all by herself. In the morning she gives the pool boy the best S-x he’s ever had right at the foyer while looking at herself in the antique silver backed mirror. And in the afternoon she lets the gardener eats her by the hedge of her tennis court (she doesn’t even like tennis but someone ought to use that court for something) But in the end of the day she is still cold and unreachable.

And the YSL muse is the soulless synthetic creature that will, one day, sprout from her back, when she eventually takes the Substance.

 

[dancv]

And the YSL muse is the soulless synthetic creature that will, one day, sprout from her back, when she eventually takes the Substance.

I think this is a film waiting to happens! Quick get Tom Ford a call

 

[LadyJunon]

I'm on the fence.

I really want to LOVE this. And in certain ways, I do. But I also see where some critics - including Cathy Horyn's review - are coming from in it feeling "old." As much as I'm obsessed with fashion from the past eras, we can't just "go back."

I, too, crave from fashion drama, creativity, elegance, mystery, sensuality, sex appeal, glamour, etc...and you get that here for sure.

But, I can't help but feel a general question hanging in the air over the whole industry - what even is the point anymore? Do people even live like this anymore? Our culture has degenerated so deep into casual living. Luxury industries chase mass appeal, negating the very principle of being a luxury in the first place. There are no niche or subcultures anymore. Young people don't have a sense of references or self-generated curiosities for them to pick up on inspirations in a designer's work.

I appreciate Haider really going for it. But it doesn't really change the feeling of the uselessness of it all.

Wait, this is actually quite interesting, because I've been noticing a general shift towards more "nostalgic" inspirations this season. You have Gucci with their own "House of Gucci", the 80s-inspired abortion that was Vitale's Versace, both Ferragamo and Lanvin presented 20s-inspired collections, the Mugler show earlier this morning looked like a mid/late-00s runway. I think that designers are fatigued of dealing with a whole decade of designing ugly, garish streetwear and Kardashian-wear followed by another half-decade mind-numbing quiet luxury. On top of that, luxury's future seems somewhat bleak (we're at the end of a cycle like in the 40s and 80s), so designers are looking back to "better" days.

Interestingly, Horyn's main issue with the collection was how gendered the presentation was (women in gowns, suits and stilettos, men in loungewear and loafers). That said, she praised Versace and Dries Van Noten, so her opinion means absolutely nothing to me.

 

[brandon J pierre]

Interestingly, Horyn's main issue with the collection was how gendered the presentation was (women in gowns, suits and stilettos, men in loungewear and loafers). That said, she praised Versace and Dries Van Noten, so her opinion means absolutely nothing to me.

Me to she a very well seasoned critic and her praising versace was a no go for me. She's been to many versace shows and seen real sexy clothes and great workmanship and for her too entertainment that is silly. And why does everybody have a problem with gender all of a sudden? I thought the tom ford man last night was absolutely sexy. I thought also that the clothes had no sexual orientation. But I guess sexual orientation is a thing of the past and now we're on to gender.

 

[helmutnotdead]

also the way Haider outshined the non event JW Dior debut 😭🛐

 

[brandon J pierre]

Wait, this is actually quite interesting, because I've been noticing a general shift towards more "nostalgic" inspirations this season. You have Gucci with their own "House of Gucci", the 80s-inspired abortion that was Vitale's Versace, both Ferragamo and Lanvin presented 20s-inspired collections, the Mugler show earlier this morning looked like a mid/late-00s runway. I think that designers are fatigued of dealing with a whole decade of designing ugly, garish streetwear and Kardashian-wear followed by another half-decade mind-numbing quiet luxury. On top of that, luxury's future seems somewhat bleak (we're at the end of a cycle like in the 40s and 80s), so designers are looking back to "better" days.

They're trying to go backwards to catch some sort of wind. But the real reality is that millennials were interested in fashion from a buying perspective. But gen z does not they don't really care. Those look from the dior shows will be all over dupe sheen fashion nova they're not purchasing those high price pieces , but they might buy a bag. Remember gen z , particularly the kids of the covid generation have seen so much and they're not well off. They don't really care about labels. If the future of luxury fashion depends on gen z it's a rap, they want kardashian For 24.99
I think these designers should go back to trying to pull in the over thirty crowd. They have the money they have to status.They have the time to invest in buying nice pieces why not. That what we got with tom ford

 

[GivenchyAddict]

^Even Mugler outshines Dior so it says a lot.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Mmmmmm… I’m on the fence. On one end I like the atmosphere, the general first feeling, the sense of foreboding. It has a brutalist and gothic charm akin to the seediness of Blade Runner and The Hunger. Even odes to Klute and Metropolis. The severity supports his way of tailoring and the clinginess of his jersey.

My issue is how sterile it feels. It’s too… waxen. In a way I find it prude. Where’s the hair, the grit, the pubes and sweat? It’s a little too proper when composed in this way, a little poseur. It’s a great proposition for an overall vision to take Tom Ford, but long term there’s a lack of flexibility and I question his take on sex as well. It’s very “OnlyFans gay baiting”, with the shaved bodies, gritless sexiness and very surface level look of hyper smooth (teetering AI/ChatGPT) eroticism. Maybe it’s me projecting, and perhaps asking too much too soon considering how early in the game he is for Tom Ford. I just wonder where it’s going to go because even for S/S, it’s still very antiseptic and that adds a heaviness to the collection.