Ever since Haider Ackermann was introduced as the brand new artistic director of Tom Ford again in September, it was solely a matter of time earlier than he bro’d down as soon as extra along with his longtime trend BFF, Timothée Chalamet, whom the celebrated designer has outfitted recurrently since his late-2010s stint at Berluti. That long-awaited reunion lastly materialized tonight on the 2025 Golden Globes, granting us our first potential peek at Ackermann’s imaginative and prescient for his new employer.
And that imaginative and prescient was comparatively quiet, if solely in comparison with the backless crimson showstoppers of Haider-Timmy linkups previous. Chalamet sported a rakishly slim black go well with—speckled with a handful of glittery sequins, maybe a refined nod to this different memorable Venice Movie Competition look circa 2021—over a sober striped costume shirt. Round his neck, he loosely slung a silky polka-dot scarf, in a fashion harking back to Bob Dylan on the quilt of the musician’s 1966 album Blonde on Blonde—simply the newest of a number of Dylan sartorial references Chalamet has made as he continues to advertise A Full Unknown. The hems of his drainpipe trousers bunched up atop a pair of gleaming black Chelsea boots, a signature of a number of of his prior Ackermann-designed ensembles.
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Whereas tonight’s equipment felt par for the course so far as Ackermann and Chalamet’s ongoing collaborations are involved, the go well with’s trimmer silhouette and lapels did really feel like a marked departure from the extra traditionally-cut energy tailoring Ford made his calling card over the course of practically twenty years at his eponymous label. It’s unclear if Chalamet’s look is indicative of the place Ackermann will take Tom Ford when unveils his debut assortment for the model at Paris Trend Week in March, or if it’s merely a bespoke creation meant to spotlight the actor’s willowy determine.
Both method, Ackermann is bound to ship an energizing jolt to Tom Ford. After Ford offered his firm to Estée Lauder to the tune of $2.8 billion in April 2023, he was succeeded as artistic director by his longtime protégé Peter Hawkings. That appointment, nonetheless, lasted lower than a yr, with Hawkings’s preliminary output largely deemed by critics as too secure and deferential to Ford’s prior work. Primarily based on this primary glimpse supplied by Chalamet, it’s secure to say that shouldn’t be a difficulty with a designer as singular as Ackermann now on the helm.
