REVIEW: TOM FORD’S A SINGLE MAN
Theatre by Ismail Ahmed on October 14, 2009 at 8:30 am
In Hollywood, it used to be that you were only as good as your last movie. However these days, it appears you’re only as good as your last fashion label. From Lindsay Lohan serving as Ungaro’s artistic adviser to Justin Timberlake’s William Rast clothing line, celebrities are making a beeline for the runway. And the runway it seems, is a two-way street with fashion designer Tom Ford’s feature film ‘A Single Man’ sashaying across to Hollywood.
Synonymous with sophistication and style and a dead ringer for a gay 007, he’s famed for revitalizing the Gucci and YSL brands in addition to creating the eponymous Tom Ford label. Once featuring in no less than twelve televised advertising campaigns simultaneously, it was simply a matter of time before the debonair dandy turned his hand from seams to the silver screen. Adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel ‘A Single Man’, the film chronicles an English professor in 1960s Los Angeles, coping with the unexpected death of his long-term boyfriend.
For those of you wary of the out designer’s seemingly superficial background and the possibility of style-over-substance, rest assured the film premiered at the 66th Venice Film Festival garnering a prestigious Golden Lion nomination and a best actor win for it’s star Colin Firth. Steadily gaining buzz for it’s arresting visuals and beguiling charm, the slated December release-date for American cinemas suggests ‘Oscar-contender’.
Across the pond, it plays at the BFI London Film Festival on October 16th, though tickets are disappointingly sold out. What’s perhaps harder to accept is – given his lover of twenty odd years – Tom Ford’s anything but a single man.
Tags: advertising, boyfriend, Brand, celebrity, clothes, deaths, fashion, film, gay, gays, london, play, reviews, Style, times, Tom Ford
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