Fashion designer and filmmaker Tom Ford has spoken out about his portrayal in «House of Gucci» and shared his opinion on the Hollywood film.
In 1994, a young Tom Ford became the creative director of Gucci, turning the brand around with his eye-catching women’s ready-to-wear designs. Ford joined the company in 1990 and has been credited with ultimately saving the fashion brand from bankruptcy. In Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci, Reeve Carney portrays Ford in the early 1990s as he joins the Gucci brand and debuts his first collection. House of Gucci follows the rise and fall of the Italian power couple, Patrizia Reggiani (played by Lady Gaga) and Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), and the events leading to Mauritzo’s assassination at the hands of his ex-wife Patrizia on March 27, 1995. So far, the film has received mixed reviews from critics and Tom Ford has recently spoken out about the film in an essay he penned for Air Mail. In his essay, he praised the performances of Lady Gaga as Patrizia, Adam Driver as Maurizio, Jeremy Irons for playing Maurizio’s father Rodolfo, and Salma Hayek as psychic Pina Auriemma. But he did raise concerns about the film’s accuracy and delivery, writing he found it hard to see «the humor and camp in something that was so bloody.» Newsweek has a full recap of everything Ford has said about House of Gucci below. Writing in Air Mail, Ford described his experience of watching the two-hour and 37-minute film in the theater as feeling as though he had «lived through a hurricane.» He reflected: «Was it a farce or a gripping tale of greed? I often laughed out loud, but was I supposed to?» At the end of his essay, Ford reflected how «deeply sad» he felt for several days after watching House of Gucci.
