US designer Tom Ford paid tribute to Jay-Z at his London Fashion Week show by including a sequinned version of the rapper’s Tom Ford 61 football jersey in his collection of evening wear.
[Left: Models present creations for the Tom Ford collection during the 2014 Autumn / Winter London Fashion Week in London on February 17, 2014. ©AFP PHOTO / ANDREW COWIE]
Amid an elegant, luxurious range of fur coats and velvet and cashmere dresses, Ford included two glittering shift dresses, one in black and the other in a rusty orange.
Worn with stiletto boots and a leather trim, they both bore the words Tom Ford 61 and Molly, crossed out, on the front and back in white sequins.
It was a knock-off of the jersey Jay-Z has worn while performing his tribute song “Tom Ford”, which references the designer’s birth year, 1961, and the drug-related lyrics.
In the song, Jay-Z says “I don’t pop molly, I rock Tom Ford” – taken to mean that he doesn’t take MDMA, a pure form of ecstasy, instead getting his kicks from a sharp suit.
Ford drew on shapes from the London fashions of the 1960s for the skirt suits and shifts of his Autumn Winter 2014 collection, in a palette of black, white and bright red. – AFP RELAXNEWS