‘Need Those Jeans’: It’s Tom Ford Mania at Paris Fashion Week

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The morning after Haider Ackermann’s Tom Ford fall 2026 show, I woke up in Paris to a text from my cousin, Max, a 24-year old photographer who lives in New York and is—like a lot of his friends—obsessed with Tom Ford-era Gucci. Ford has loomed large in fashion for the past few seasons, even as the designer is happily retired from his…