BigShinyThing » Tom Ford: Internet is IT

Wednesday 25 October 2006

Thank god for that.

The ex-Gucci designer and iconoclast-about-town has announced that the Internet is useful. Tom Ford told Women’s Wear Daily:

I think it is important to always address and use the primary media of one’s time and we all have to face the fact that there is no more powerful media than the internet. It is how most of us communicate, get our news, entertain ourselves, and increasingly shop.

Unfortunately, Ford has chosen to embrace a retro, 1.0 version of the Web and his site is so weighed down with Flash frills that we couldn’t actually access it. So not a good look.

Story via UK Vogue.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: fashion, Internet, Tom Ford

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