I Love You, Too, Tom

Jesus Christ. Is there a hotter man alive than Tom Ford? I think not. I should like to eat him with a spoon. To say to him, "Damn, Tom, you breakfast."

And yet... Tom is gay. Why is God so cruel? I know not. Perhaps Tom will read this and realize I am his one true love. Perhaps not.

Anyway, Ford appears in this wildly amusing spoof-splice mashup of HBO's uber-thinky dramatic series "In Treatment" in which a bunch of people talk to a shrink played by Gabriel Byrne.

Here, in a smoldering performance--hey, is it hot in here, or is that just me?--Ford recites the lines that once belonged to Laura for the designer's CFDA Awards video.

(via Fashionista)

Tom Ford's Spring/Summer 2008 Ad Campaign

I'd seen various shots from Tom Ford's Spring/Summer 2008 ad campaign by Terry Richardson, but I hadn't seen the whole set. They're pretty impressively raunchy, including the full-frontal male nudity. (To wit: penises.) Not long ago, Ford addressed the fact that penises outside of porn remain one of the last taboos--at least here in America.

"Imagine … if our suits were entirely designed to show off our penises. Imagine if contemporary fashion demanded that you left your cock hanging outside your trousers, with perhaps just the head trussed up in a tiny pouch like a dick bra. Everyone would see our cocks all the time..."

Dick bra, anyone?

Tom v. Thom

The New York Times has a somewhat interesting piece today on the state of the suit and what it says about the state of the American man: "Sizing Up the Cut of a Man." Indeed. The pressing premise seems to be: Which Tom are you? Tom Ford? Or Thom Browne?

In a nutshell, Tom Ford is all about the sexy and Thom Browne is all about the floods.

While Trebay, as usual, spends far too much time masturbating with words while failing to make a point, he does offer up this gem of an insight: "[B]oth men seem to start from the hoary but still sound premise, so beloved of the folks in theory-land, that masculinity is a pose, a form of drag."

Tom Ford, says Trebay, is for guys who want to "fuse the debonair cut of a Savile Row suit with the swagger of a star from 1970s pornography." Thom Browne, says Trebay, is for guys who want to look like Pee-wee Herman.

What kind of man are you?