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Fri 02 Feb 2010Cut from a different cloth
He directed it, co-wrote it and paid for it, but Tom Ford's debut movie, A Single Man, is no vanity project. The top fashion designer tells DONALD CLARKEhow he found his style "When it has my name on it, that means I designed it. When you go and see a Tom Ford film, you know that I made it all. It's my work"
"After the 1980s and Aids, sex had become dangerous and, as a result, fashion had become rather serious," Ford explains. "I resurrected the idea of sensuality, sexuality of actually having fun. I hope I made fashion lighter and fresher. I hope it doesn't sound immodest, but that really helped the company."
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