American fashion designer and film director. Tom Ford is a gay American fashion designer, and is credited most for launching his own self-titled luxury fashion brand, as well as for being the creative director for brands like Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Tom Ford also directed the Oscar-nominated, 2009 film A Single Man, which starred Colin Firth as a gay college professor living in Los Angeles. Ford is heralded as one of fashion’s most important minds and is married to Richard Buckley, a well-known LGBT writer and journalist.
The fashion icon (who was briefly portrayed in the new, Gaga-led drama) was working as Gucci's creative director when the events of the film took place.
"I always wanted kids, but I really had a bad drinking problem. I couldn’t have had Jack in that state — I’d have dropped him down the stairs and accidentally burned him with a cigarette."
