Tom Ford Calls Yves Saint Laurent "Evil"

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Yikes!

Despite Tom Ford's tremendous success while working for Yves Saint Laurent, Ford had some not-so-nice things to say about the deceased designer. In the December/January issue of The Advocate, Ford says,

"Being at Yves Saint Laurent was such a negative experience for me even though the business boomed while I was there. Yves and his partner, Pierre Bergé, were so difficult and so evil and made my life such misery. I've never talked about this on the record before, but it was an awful time for me…. I have letters from Yves Saint Laurent that are so mean you cannot even believe such vitriol is possible. I just think he was jealous, and Yves and I were friends before I took over the company. But then when we began to move the company forward and were very successfull…he just became so insanely jealous… Pierre and Yves were just evil. So Yves Saint Laurent doesn't exist for me."

So much for not speaking ill of the dead! It's unfortunate that a period of such great success was tainted by the bad relationship between the two.

Happily, Ford has moved on and is enjoying considerable success on his own.

Greener pastures!

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 6:00 pm