146 OCTOBER 2019 VOGUE.COM
Even though I was in Europe
for 30 years, I always felt very
linked to [this country]. In
America, if you are creative,
also being commercially
minded is not a bad thing.
There has always been this
practicality to American
fashion—and over the years,
thinking about those
questions has gone from
being an American concern
to one that’s more global.
Tom Ford
Tom Ford
Marine Serre
Marine Serre
There shouldn’t be boundaries when we’re making
fashion. The biggest challenge for a young designer now
is learning to be sharper, because we have to be as quick
as the big houses. And I don’t want to confuse Marine
Serre with a brand that wants to make money doing green
stuff—everyone should be caring about that already.
Wes Gordon
Carolina Herrera
Everyone is dissecting what American
fashion should be. I think a part of
that—that America has the potential to
do so well—is to take the fantasy and
the glamour and marry it with the
everyday in a way that’s still enticing
and exciting and wonderful. Every step
of the process should be a joyous one.
TOM FORD,
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ.
WES GORDON
(CENTER) WITH
ACTRESSES TAO
OKAMOTO AND
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS,
BOTH IN CAROLINA
HERRERA.
ACTRESS EIZA GONZÁLEZ IN MARINE SERRE,
PHOTOGRAPHED BY MIKAEL JANSSON.
GORDON: NINA WESTERVELT/
THE NEW
YORK TIMES
/REDUX PICTURES
