Sex sells. In recent fashion history, no one has proven this more consistently than Tom Ford, who will undoubtedly invoke a beauty recipe of full-tilt sensuality when presenting his Fall 2016 collection in New York tonight. After all, Ford is the unrivaled master of seduction. Since arriving on the scene in his first creative director role at Gucci in 1994, he’s honed a few revved-up hair and makeup moves that mark every show, campaign, and film he touches like a fingerprint.
First and foremost, there are the glossy, almost-sweaty swaths of skin. For his first wave-making Gucci runway show for Fall 1995, Shalom Harlow, Amber Valletta, and more supervixens met his unbuttoned-down-to-there silk shirts with equally glossy décolletage. It’s a hallmark that has been repeated for the slinky sequined swimsuit he produced for Gucci in Spring 2004 and every fragrance, fashion, and beauty campaign between then and Spring 2014’s barely there mesh and sequined dresses under his own label.
Hair most often receives the pillow-teased treatment, a full-blast bedhead epitomized in Spring 2003 with the likes of Erin Wasson and Frankie Rayder parading in anti-gravitational, tousled curls. Makeup has a few glamorous speeds: golden contours, gleaming metallic eyes, and heavy rimmings of slept-in smoky liner anchored by a cool nude lip. These he bestows on his army of babes, ranging from stalwart supers like Kate Moss to fresh faces he helps catapult into superstardom. Here, five of Tom Ford’s sexiest contributions to the world of beauty.
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