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Tom Ford presents his new collection, talks Nocturnal Animals and his issues with depression

Sep 08, 2016 20:52

Gyllenhaal on Tom Ford: The first day I sat down in person with him was an interesting feeling. I was worried that he would focus on the aesthetic over the heart of the story - perhaps this is my own prejudice. (He did notice a detail on the jeans I was wearing from very far away!) But he was so different than I expected. He had thousands of research photographs. He had a palette for each character. Everything was packed with thought and detail."

Covering the current issue of THR, Tom Ford talks about his career, his family, and his life long struggle with depression: "I can remember early thoughts of suicide at 8 or 9 years old," he says. "Those things are often hereditary - people in my family have had that - as is alcoholism, and that's also something I've dealt with." On the subject of his new film, Nocturnal Animals, which premiered to great reviews at Venice, Ford says the themes of the film resonated deeply with him: "Susan is quite literally me," he says. "She's someone who has material things but realizes - maybe this happened to me seven or eight years ago - those aren't the things that are important. She is struggling with the world that I live in: the world of absurd rich [people], the hollowness and emptiness I perceive in our culture.
"[Life] can be an endless, unfulfilling quest for some sort of happiness that is elusive," he goes on. "Because the whole concept of happiness as peddled by our culture doesn't exist. Nobody lives happily ever after. If you buy this and do that and build this house, you're not going to be happy. Life is happy, sad, tragic, joyful. But that's not what we're taught, that's not what our culture pounds into our heads.”

Tom Ford thinks he is "too cynical to be a true artist" https://t.co/FZuFC3fmLM pic.twitter.com/Vm7gxKHJNH
- Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 8, 2016

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