Rank #1673
Tom Ford
Net worth $2.5B
Fashion · United States
- Born
- Aug 27, 1961
- Age
- 64
- Source
- Fashion
- Residence
- Los Angeles, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Drop Out, New York University; Bachelor of Architecture, Parsons School of Design
Net worth over time
Biography
- Tom Ford is a fashion designer who founded his eponymous brand Tom Ford International in 2005.
- He sold his stake in the company, plus a separate fragrance and cosmetics business, to Estée Lauder in a $2.8 billion deal in November 2022.
- The deal saw Ford step down as CEO, but he remained the creative visionary of the company until the end of 2023.
- Ford was the creative director of Gucci from 1994 to 2005, helping revitalize the brand and grow its revenues twelvefold to $3 billion.
- Ford also has a film production company, Fade to Black, that has won several Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for its films.
- Ford owns homes in Los Angeles, New York, London, Palm Beach and Santa Fe, as well as an art collection featuring works by Andy Warhol.
- Ford moved to New York as a teenager and studied art history at New York University, before transferring to Parsons to study architecture.