The New York premiere of Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals” drew the cast and fashion crowd alike to The Paris Theatre. The dress code for the evening, from which only a few were exempt, was, of course, Tom Ford.
“I’d be stupid not to,” Ellie Bamber said of wearing a black gown by the designer to the black carpet. Fellow cast member Karl Glusman echoed the sentiment. “I made sure of it,” he said of wearing a Tom Ford suit.
Ford expressed his excitement to be premiering the film in New York, a place he said has so much meaning to him. He revealed that for him, there are a few parallels between designing and directing. In fact, his most recent collection was his “favorite in years” because he felt so energized by doing both at once.
“As a fashion designer, you have to have a vision and a point of view,” he said. “And as a film director, you certainly have to have that. As fashion designers, we’re telling stories. As a filmmaker, I’m also telling a story. Fashion, I love; it moves quickly, fast-paced; it satisfies a very important part of my creative needs, yet film is a different thing. It takes much longer to make.
“If I didn’t have
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