helmut.newton
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helmut.newton you made my day!!! this is definitely one of my all time favorite collection!
i just love how each girl has a different look
the hair, make up was beautiful!!! and the clothes are gorgeous. i love how tom ford played with the idea of lingerie!
and the music!!! fantastic! i have the mp3 of it i got it from mrwilsondj
thanks for posting this!!!
I got inspired from looking at Tom Ford's book.
Do you still have this soundtrack? Could you post it online?!
^^^ Tom’s design aesthetic has always been deeply cinematic: He tells a story and builds upon the existing lifestyle with every collection and its campaign. And this was all before showcasing what an impressive filmmaker he proved to be. I still enjoy his current efforts, just that the storyteller has left the building because why bother in these banal times?
The YSL revamps from Tom to Anthony has been the strongest of any label. There's clearly a difference of style and creative aesthetic of course (and even Juergen’s efforts look decent), but it’s been consistently and confidently one that’s true to HF worldbuilding/dreammaking and always never forgets its world of exclusive, luxurious decadence. Even when someone like Collier was tapped to shoot the campaign, that brand of smoulder and feminine allure was never abandoned, with Collier producing one of her strongest— and my current fav HF imagery in the form of Mica slithering in those cheeky stiletto roller-skates.
I still loves Tom but I feel like I like the idea of the Tom Ford woman more than the reality in terms of clothes. I still wears a lot of his YSL/Gucci stuff but I don’t have the same passion for the pieces of his own line (except the bags and the pieces from SS 2015).
^^^ I suspect it’s a combination of having reached his creative peak, and also the adamancy of being a globally successful brand and an acclaimed filmmaker— mix in working at a time when such creative provocations and rich complexities of design are dismissed as ostentatious and exclusive (once the foundation of HF but is now looked upon as dirty words), that has visionaries like him and Nick Knight just making the minimal effort to be down with the lessers. For people that grew up at a time when aspiring to be the best that you could be and always pushing further and harder to accomplish that, the standards will always be set impossibly high-- as it should be so. Verses today when it’s just “you’re good enough as you are (so don’t push yourself any harder)”, which is fine for a poster hanging in a high school to encourage self-esteem amongst the most insecure and needy of people, but absolutely a depressing surrender of high concept creativity in the fashion industry.
Frankly, I’m looking way way way more forward to Tom's next film than his next collection.
But you know what, I don’t mind the fact that he has reached his creative peak. I’m not attached to the past. Yes, there’s this nostalgia about that era but I can still watch the shows on YouTube, wear or search for archives pieces that I love. The problem for me is that I don’t necessarly connect with the idea of a woman he is designing for...If he has any idea.
I love his menswear and seeing men in Tom Ford because you get right away who he is designing for. Men who wears Tom Ford are dedicated to the aesthetic! You see them in certain areas at their jobs wearing his suits and looking great...Far from the LA fantasy of middle aged men in dinner jackets lol.
I’m an active woman and yes, the quality of his clothes is perfect and he is the king of tailoring and a timeless backless black dress but I hate that « Hollywood air » around his current offering because it kills creativity and influenced a certain conformism. Do we need another sequined column dress with long sleeves? I ordered the orange satin coat from his SS20 collection but was really the only fresh and desirable proposition from the runway collection. The breast plates are beyond 20000€... And as beautifully made as the jersey dresses were made, there are disposable.
I’ll use Ghesquiere as an example. I adored his stuff at Balenciaga and I’m still faithful to him at Vuitton. I totally understand that he has moved on and that maybe Balenciaga was his creative peak. His Vuitton is maybe less impressive and the experimentation in fabrics is less spectacular but he still does very beautiful clothes. The majority of his clothes at Vuitton are close in prices to the Commercial versions of the runway collections at Balenciaga.
In his films, his vision is clear! Amy Adams is the Tom Ford woman...I want an elevated version of that...Not nappa leather tennis shorts worn with a satin jacket. But he is kinda dictated by what is selling and his column dresses are selling...