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Ford again fueled rumors last November, when he announced that he'd bought the rights to novelist Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel, A Single Man, about a middle-aged gay professor. Still, most people simply shrugged at the news, but now Ford seems closer to ever to achieving his big screen dreams, complete with A-list actors, says Marc Malkin: Sources reveal exclusively to me that it looks like Colin Firth will star as a gay college professor who deals with the sudden death of his lover. The character is helped in his efforts by a lifelong female friend and one of his students. The movie, which has yet to find a studio, will begin shooting in November. |
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Of course, the fashion world's always kneeling down for Ford, who would do it himself if he knew how. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the ceaseless praise doesn't necessarily make him the best designer. Not in Pilati's eyes, at least: …Pilati doesn’t mince words when he compares the late couturier with Ford, his former boss and immediate predecessor at the house, noting that while Saint Laurent challenged women, “Tom had a very precise vision of the company that didn’t challenge women.” Tom Ford, we're sure, doesn't give a damn. |
» Party Hopping!
Michelle Obama will soon be campaigning amongst the gay mafia and Hollywood's elite: "…Obama is headed to Hollywood to court gay and lesbian support. Tom Ford is among the expected co-hosts of a Sept. 3 benefit at the home of CAA agent Bryan Lourd. The same night, she'll head over to Samuel L. Jackson's place for another fund-raiser…" [NYDN] |
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Sure, critics loved his high-water suits, but Page Six offers a sobering wake-up call: [Browne] is a darling of the fashion elite, but the masses aren't enthralled. Despite his being crowed over by the New York Times and vying for the CFDA menswear designer of the year award (he lost to Tom Ford), fashionistas point out Browne's deal at Brooks Brothers is over, and just last month, Bergdorf Goodman was still selling his Spring 2006 tuxedos. "His stuff may be acclaimed, but it's not very popular with the consumer," one insider said. Browne's rep didn't return repeated calls. Wait - Bergdorf is still selling 2006 tuxedos? Gawd, we can't believe we live in such a gauche city! |
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And, as a permanent provocateur, he had one of the men, Brazilian Alex Schultz strip to his birthday suit. Check out the NSFW results, after the jump. |
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If Thom Browne has come to represent sartorial arrested development, the proponent of a kind of masculinity that suggests one is never sexier than when being carded, Tom Ford is a throwback to a different manliness. In one of those funny confluences that retailers like Bergdorf Goodman are seemingly built to showcase, the two designers and their variant ideas of how men should dress now find themselves cheek by jowl. We suggest Browne and Ford settle this the old fashioned way: naked oil wrestling. It's only fair… [PS: For those of you not in the fashion know, Ford's design is on the left, while Browne's short-legged suit can be seen on the right.] |
» Perfect Fit.
Former Gucci god and all-around homosexual Tom Ford designed the costumes for the Santa Fe Opera's production of The Letter, which is apparently all sorts of sexy. [Santa Fe New Mexican] |
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Ms. Jackson if you're nasty accepted the Vanguard Award, and got a little friendly with presenter Ellen DeGeneres. Kathy Griffin won for My Life On The D-List, and shared the award with her lovely mother, just like a gay man! Tom Ford, meanwhile, awarded Herb Ritts a posthumous award, and a Medusa-esque Sharon Stone presented Rufus Wainwright with Stephen F. Kolzak award. Check out the rest of the winners here. [Images] |
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Well, now a web designer offered his own take - and it doesn't stink. |
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I finally feel rooted somewhere. I feel a sense of responsibility and stability that I didn't have before. Looking at this picture really puts things in perspective. • Refinery 29 gets behind our imaginary main squeeze, Thom Browne. • Barack, Babs, Oprah and Hillary get into a campaign menage-a-quatre. • Legendary lobbyist Aubrey Sarvis goes after Don't Ask, Don't Tell. |
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Or Is It Ass Shot?
Not ones to waste a perfectly good Terry Richardson picture, the Out media machine's circulating one particular shot, which they described to us as "super exclusive" but it's already appeared on Radar, who claim the publicist has been saving just for them. Funny, we heard the same thing. How queer - and gay, too. Of the shot, a boyish take on his vaginal cologne campaign, Ford says:
Ain't no rejection here, Tommy boy! |
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I have to say that I don't think gay is the most attractive word… Gay makes us sound silly and frivolous, which is probably where it came from - it was first used in a Cole Porter song in the '30s - and I think it was probably a bit derogatory, and so it's not a word I necessarily like, but it's what I am, whatever. Ford also tells the gay glossy that most of his friends are straight men - and he has crushes on them. Check out some more pictures - including a steamy shower scene - over at Out. |
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Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon
Apparently the former Gucci designer, seen here through Terry Richardson's lens, couldn't handle his unprecedented early success: Says Ben Widdicombe: …The man who built his fortune making schlubs like us jealous of his fabulous lifestyle (buy his $3,000 jacket and you can be cool, too!) is going through a midlife crisis. Our virtual heart just broke… Oh, wait, that was nausea. |
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