Tom on Tom: Everyone Looks Better Naked

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The Times of London has a great interview with Tom Ford (on whom my husband has an uyielding crush). I’ve included the best bits below, for your enjoyment.

On the afterlife: “Not so long ago, when Tom Ford was planning his funeral — he is very meticulous about everything — he thought that he might like his ’n’ his matching sarcophagi for him and his partner of 23 years, the fashion journalist Richard Buckley.”
On how he looks so hot: “I had a mid-life crisis for about seven years,” he says. He’s almost 48 now and wearing ridiculously well. Actually, not ridiculously: the Botox is down to a minimum and although he says he’s 5lb overweight (he ate a lot of doughnuts during filming) he looks uber Tom Fordish.
On greening his ride: “But look, if they did hybrid Bentleys I’d be the first to get one.”
On all those naked shots of him: What about the pictures of him in Out magazine, showing him naked in a shower with a bevy of other buff male bodies? “Probably shouldn’t have done those,” he says. Or the Vanity Fair cover that he art directed, of him sandwiched between a naked Scarlett Johansson and a naked Keira Knightley? “How else are you going to sell perfume to heterosexual men?”…“Put the bottle where they want to look.” He sighs. “I hate talking about sex.”…“Thing is, people look much better naked. They’re all the same colour and they can’t screw up. You see someone at the gym and they look great. Then they put on their clothes.” [See below for some of the shots in question.]

There’s also plenty in the piece about his view of Tom Ford Inc.’s business strategy, and his perspective on his time at Gucci. Read the full article here.

His film, A Single Man, an adaption of the Christopher Isherwood novel, hits the screens soon. It stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult (of Skins). Yum!