Testaments to the Noble Human Spirit
Lynn Hirschberg gives Tom Ford the long kiss goodnight on the occasion of his departure from Gucci. The glass is always half-full to retiring designer Ford, as he recounts the good times and the, well, totally gross times:
''On Sept. 11, 2001, I was in New York,'' Ford recalled, ''and the YSL store was supposed to open. On the day the planes went into the twin towers, we received 42 calls from customers looking for the purple peasant blouse. The World Trade Center is going down, and women are calling a store for a blouse. The power of fashion can be a scary thing.''
