Peter Hawkings is exiting his function as artistic director of Tom Ford, lower than a 12 months after taking up from the model’s eponymous founder. Estée Lauder Corporations, which acquired Tom Ford final 12 months, confirmed the information, including that the spring 2025 assortment will nonetheless be offered in Milan this September as deliberate, and a successor is forthcoming.
“I wish to specific my gratitude to Peter for his distinctive contributions to Tom Ford from the very starting,” stated Guillaume Jesel, president and CEO of Tom Ford and luxurious enterprise growth at Estée Lauder, in an announcement.
Hawkings has been working with Ford since 1998, when he joined the designer as a menswear design assistant at Gucci earlier than shifting his manner as much as senior males’s designer. He then left Gucci in 2006 to affix Ford within the launch of his eponymous model. At Ford, Hawkings was initially in control of the design and manufacturing of menswear, and ultimately turned the senior vp of menswear earlier than taking up artistic director final 12 months.
Ford, who offered his final assortment for his model in April 2023 proper earlier than Hawkings was named as his substitute, known as his successor “an extremely gifted chief with super business expertise.” On the time, Ford added, “his appointment provides me confidence that my dedication to creating vogue merchandise with the very best degree of design and high quality will proceed.”
A glance from Hawkings’s Tom Ford debut.
Courtesy of Tom Ford
A glance from Hawkings’s Tom Ford debut.
Courtesy of Tom Ford
Hawkings wasn’t the one mix-up at Tom Ford final 12 months. Across the identical time as his appointment, the model additionally named Lelio Gavazza because the inaugural chief govt officer of Tom Ford Style. With these modifications, the Ermenegildo Zegna Group—liable for the style aspect of the Tom Ford model—stated they hoped to propel Tom Ford into one of many high 10 luxurious vogue companies on this planet.
In February, Hawkings made his debut for Tom Ford at Milan Style Week with a summer season 2024 assortment that performed on lots of the home codes related to the eponymous founder. Hawkings continued the traditional Ford look of glamorized sensuality, sending monochrome metallic fits and skin-tight see-through attire down the runway, citing supermodel Donyale Luna as his inspiration. The gathering was met with combined opinions, with WWD calling it “Tom Ford lite.” It’s attainable that with a brand new rent, Zegna is hoping to push Tom Ford into a brand new period with an up to date identification that may survive exterior of the context of its founder.
