"I do not understand everyone's need to see everything online the day after a show," he says. "I don't think it ultimately serves the customer, which is the whole point of my business - not to serve journalists or the fashion system. To put something out that's going to be in a store in six months, and to see it on a starlet, ranked in US magazine next week? My customer doesn't want to wear the same thing she saw on a starlet!"
And he'd rather people didn't "Tom" him anymore. At 49, he lets it be known he prefers "Mr. Ford."
During his time in New York, Ford became a fixture at the legendary nightclub Studio 54, where he realized he was gay. The club's disco-era glamour would be a major influence on his later designs.
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