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...action movie--something, he says, like Dustin Hoffman's character in Marathon Man. Or like the lead in the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which he lost to Emile Hirsch. Or, and this is when his nerdiness does finally, yes, reveal itself, the kind of action comedies that Harrison Ford did. "Like when he's talking to Princess Leia--that Han Solo attitude!" he says. "Like 'Listen, sister: Stop bitching!'" I'm a little afraid he's going to wave a fake light saber at me. And, worse yet, that I'm going to wave one back...
Last year Giorgio Armani introduced a couture collection of made-to-measure suits called Giorgio Armani Fatto a Mano su Misura (Handmade to Measure). And on April 12 on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Tom Ford opened his first namesake boutique, a 1930s-style haberdashery, where shoppers can find such luxuries as $5,000 bespoke three-piece suits, 18-karat-gold and ebony sunglasses, and dressing gowns cut from 19th century jacquard fabrics...
...rush on custom haberdashery now? Ford sees it as a reaction to too much technology and information. "I think we've lost the human touch a bit in fashion," says Ford, "I go into stores, and there's nobody to help me. I get recorded voices on the end of the phone. I see this as a throwback to something that we have lost...
That something could be the idea, as Ford has imagined it, of walking into a store as though you're walking into a home. Real luxury, as he sees it, is service, not status. And Ford's store has been lovingly crafted as if it were a private residence with fireplaces, a macassar ebony staircase, a bar, butlers and even works of art from the designer's personal collection. Downstairs are a fragrance den, a room filled with floor-to-ceiling shelves of shirts (there are 340 color choices) and a salon that Ford says is an exact copy...
...idea for the line and the store came to Ford after he left the Gucci Group in 2004. "I started buying clothing for myself, but everything was too trendy or the fabric or the cut wasn't right, so I had things made in London," he explains. But Ford found the Savile Row experience "too dry" and "not what I imagine men fantasize about when they fantasize about luxurious clothing...