The designer tapped into his signature glitz and glam for a vintage revival runway with an outrageous feel.
True to its style, Tom Ford closed New York Fashion Week Spring 2023 with over-the-top bangs, sexy, sensual and inventive skin-baring looks and a mix of seductive vibes.
The opening show featured daytime shots of Tom Ford classics: crisp brocade and silk suits in metallic pastels, barely-there mesh tops with sequin appliqués and spectacularly tacky shorts with even more sequin patches. There was metallic tailoring and an emphasis on lace basics, with disco-ready dresses glittering on the runway, while the grand finale saw the Hadid sisters close the show in head-to-toe sequins, with long hair, bigger heels and even bigger earrings. Ford explored new ways to play with glitter and skin: mesh sports tops with abstract and strategically placed crystal embellishments, low-waisted skintight pants glittering with a shimmering elastic waistband of peeking metallic boxer briefs and sports pants with opulent detailing. ensembles, with the smallest of sporty shorts.
At the end of the show, there was no final walk. Instead, only one model closed the show in a floor-length gold and silver high-necked floor-length gown, with hair braided in an intricate crown-like style. As she walked the runway, she held a small bouquet of golden roses.
The glamorous fashion show also brought together a formidable front row with celebrities such as Madonna and her children Lourdes Leon and Rocco Ritchie, Chris Rock, newlyweds Peltz-Beckhams and OG super Pat Cleveland sat in the front row.
For the Spring-Summer 2023 menswear looks, Tom Ford opted for the minimal, although a Barbie-pink suit took first prize for red carpet wearability. Tom Ford also wore his models in slicked hair back as a reference to Austin Butler’s much hyped turn as the king of rock and roll. Hair was crimped, exaggerated, and sky high. Besides, the label was also inspired by the 1980s which blended nicely with the maximalist mood of current fashion.
Ford’s raucous soundtrack came straight out of 1980’s The Wolf of Wall Street; kicking off the show with a grandiloquent remix of Robert Palmer’s 1986 bop, “Addicted to Love.”
The looks evolved into formal wear, while the pensive sounds of Freddie Mercury’s 1986 solo outing, “Time Waits for No One,” filled the bustling room, perhaps a personal ode from Ford.
Explore the collection below.
