Tom Ford Bids a Final Adieu with an Assist From Steven Klein and Some of His Favorite Muses

For that September 2010 debut, Ford staged an exclusive, extremely intimate show at his store on Madison Avenue, and didn’t release any photos. He’d always been famous for starry front rows, but this time the celebrities were on the runway. Beyoncé, Stella Tennant, Karlie Kloss, and Julianne Moore, his close friend and the lead of his debut film A Single Man, dropped everything and modeled for him. 

Fall 2023 is Ford’s last collection for his brand after selling to Estée Lauder in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. Watching the campaign videos, fans will spot callbacks to that first women’s lineup and the many iconic fashion moments that have come since. They’re all intentional: In celebration of the remarkable company he built, Ford revisited some of his favorite looks. See on Kloss the broken mirror sheath he made for spring 2014, and on Valletta the metallic colorblock bodycon dress he presented for spring 2016. There’s a remake of the white caped column gown he made for Gwyneth Paltrow at the 2012 Oscar’s, a version of the spring 2020 fuchsia breastplate and skirt combo, most famously worn by Zendaya, and even a redo of the iconic velvet suit dating back to his Gucci days (here in blue paired with a tonal silk button-down similar to the Gucci version Madonna wore at the 1996 VMA’s).