Tom Ford For H&M?

Tom Ford For H&M?

TOM FORD maybe the next designer to team up with H&M, if current rumours are to be believed.

Margareta van den Bosch, creative director for the Swedish high street chain, commented that Ford is "a very interesting name," when asked about the possibility of a collaboration, adding "I can say, I wouldn't mind."

A collection created by Ford would be the ninth designer collaboration for H&M, whose most recent partnership with Italian fashion house Versace goes on sale in the UK tomorrow and is expected to sell out immediately. Previous designers to create exclusive pieces for the store have included Karl Lagerfeld, Matthew Williamson,Lanvin, Roberto Cavalli and Jimmy Choo. 

If rumours come to fruition, Ford's collection will undoubtedly be yet another success for H&M.

"There would be great customer interest in such a collection," Anne Critchlow, a London-based analyst at Societe Generale, told The Huffington Post, adding that the former Gucci designer confers "fashion authority". A spokesperson for Ford declined to comment on the matter.

Since leaving his role as creative director at Gucci in 2004, Ford has directed Oscar-nominated film A Single Man and started his eponymous womenswear and beauty lines.

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SOURCE: VOGUE - BIBBY SOWRAY 16 November 2011

October 19 - ON this day in history...

October 19

ON this day in history...

...2001, Alexander McQueen revealed he had a strange crush - on Michael Portillo. "It was really exciting to meet Michael," said McQueen. "If I'd been allowed to vote I'd have got him in. I've always fancied him."

...2004, the unexpected friendship between Kate Moss and Sarah Ferguson was explained. Both Moss and Ferguson were set to appear naked but for a pair of Jimmy Choos and some Cartier jewels in a book to raise money for Elton John's AIDS Foundation. Ferguson was photographed with her modesty covered by a silk sheet while Moss was completely bare with a cigar hanging from her lips in the book entitled 4 Inches.

...2004, Tom Ford admitted that his time at Gucci was not all sober sailing. "Five o'clock every day, man, it was cocktail hour," he said. "And those cocktail trays came out, trays of vodka tonics, and the whole staff would keep drinking till like 9. I drank through the whole thing. Maybe I was a bad boss. I think I was a good boss."

Source: VOGUE - BIBBY SOWRAY 19 October 2011