"I've always thought of myself as a commercial fashion designer," Tom Ford said. "This is the first thing I've ever done in my life that was a pure artistic expression." He was referring, of course, to his debut film, A Single Man, which had its New York premiere on Sunday night. As with everything else the designer touches, the project has been earning raves. "The more I've gotten to know Tom, the more I appreciate him," said his leading lady, Julianne Moore, who originally met Ford in 1998 when he was designing her a dress for the Academy Awards (shockingly, she went with another option that night). "He's someone to whom the important things matter," Moore added, and we presume she didn't mean his oft-stated penchant for going commando.
Rounding out the cast of the movie, an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel about a single day in the life of a bereaved professor, are Colin Firth (who nabbed the Best Actor trophy in Venice for the role) and Nicholas Hoult. Most familiar to Americans as the boy in About a Boy, Hoult is all grown up now. "He's six-four!" Ford laughed. "We recently did a photo shoot together and I made them bring me two boxes to stand on so I wouldn't look like such a munchkin!"
But it was a giant's welcome, not a munchkin's, he got at the after-party at Monkey Bar. While Jon Kortajarena received compliments from Kevin Bacon for his cameo ("my first film," the Spanish model said), Ford was toasted by Ellen Barkin, Courtney Love, Rachel Roy, Mario Testino, and his distributor, Harvey Weinstein. He then retreated to a back table with Madonna and-we couldn't help but notice-Bravo's Andy Cohen. First fashion, then fragrance, then film; could reality TV be next?
Matthew Schneier
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