For W's Stuck in My Head series, senior digital editor maxinewally looks back on Tom Ford's final collection at Yves Saint Laurent.
And perhaps Ford would like to keep it that way. He famously struggled in his relationship with the late designer himself Yves Saint Laurent, who was, to say the least, not pleased with the direction Ford took the label, .
“Yves and his partner, Pierre Bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery,” Ford once recalled, years after he’d left Gucci Group following its buyout by the company that eventually became part of the luxury conglomerate Kering. “I’d lived in France off and on and had always loved it…It wasn’t until I started working in France that I began to dislike it. [In Paris,] you are not able to work an employee more than 35 hours a week. The fiscal police...
It was Ford’s final collection for Yves Saint Laurent, a fall ready-to-wear line in 2004, which cemented him within the label’s historical canon. The previous season, he’d bent to the will of Saint Laurent somewhat, incorporating the signature Le Smoking jacket rendered in silks and wedding-dress-whites into his runway. But for his last dance, Ford gave a huge middle finger to Yves and Pierre, and did whatever the hell he wanted.
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