'Visionaries: Tom Ford' Set To Air On Oprah's OWN Channel June 24

Tom Ford's next act will be an hour-long documentary slated to premiere on Oprah's OWN channel come June 24, Racked reports. Ford is no stranger to the talk show diva's cult; he and Colin Firth sat down with Winfrey to discuss "A Single Man" before the 2010 Oscars.

This time around, cameras chronicled the designer-turned-director from his super secret womenswear show in N.Y.C. last fall to the recent vernissage of his flagship in Beverly Hills. Danica Lo writes:

"Visionaries: Tom Ford" changes things entirely--Ford opens up to the audience in a way that we never imagined possible, revealing his own struggles with depression, mid-life crisis, and professional reinvention. He also reveals that he takes between three and five baths a day, a fact which, somehow, makes us really like him.

At some point in the episode, Ford confesses, "I have, sometimes, mixed feelings about what we do because we convince people they're not perfect enough. We promote materialism, which is ultimately not the thing that brings you happiness in the world."

He adds, "I could absolutely die tomorrow -- I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life. There are lots of things I'd like to do, I don't want to die, but I'm comfortable enough with having lived and having experiences that death does not freak me out at all."

According to IMDB, James Cameron, Lady Gaga, Annie Leibovitz, Tyler Perry and will.i.am were each filmed for their own "Visionaries" show.

Read the rest at Racked.com.

Comments

[Princess Mara]

03:56 PM on 06/04/2011

Hey TF! Blot your forehead!

[lovegoodclothes]

10:32 PM on 06/02/2011

love Tom Ford... love his accent...love his movie 'A Single Man"....yum.

[Princess Mara]

07:16 AM on 06/04/2011

His accent? Don't you mean his "affectation" This guy is so phony and out of any realm of reality.

[Contact1972]

04:27 PM on 06/04/2011

If you so dislike Tom Ford why even take the time to comment?

[Duzula]

12:39 PM on 06/02/2011

No way, an icon that gets it! Word. Do your show bro.

[derrickj66]

12:30 PM on 06/02/2011

TF is such a brilliant man! I love to listen to him and to watch his work.

[Contact1972]

12:32 PM on 06/02/2011

Agreed! His voice is just velvet heaven. I'm such a sucker for Southern boys:-)

Please tell me youve seen 'A Single Man'.

[Princess Mara]

07:19 AM on 06/04/2011

The SOUTH? You mean the SOUTHWEST! He grew up in TEXAS

[holyfrak]

11:40 AM on 06/02/2011

3 to 5 baths a day wastes a lot of water and is bad for the environment. Shame on you Tom Ford!

[Princess Mara]

07:20 AM on 06/04/2011

He's trying to wash away the real world, which being beneath him, he refuses to live in.

[Contact1972]

04:29 PM on 06/04/2011

Bitter, party of one-bitter, party of one!

[JScott]

11:10 AM on 06/02/2011

I have, sometimes, mixed feelings about what we do because we convince people they're not perfect enough. We promote materialism, which is ultimately not the thing that brings you happiness in the world

Oh the horror, thinking that people might not buy overpriced stuff they don't need. You might be labled a Communist. Stay away from the RWNM and Fox News.

[Kali03]

09:12 AM on 06/02/2011

I have no mixed feelings for Tom Ford.

My feelings for Tom Ford: ooooooh, yummy Tom Ford, so handsome and brilliant and always beautifully dressed, very thoughtful and insightful, studly, in possession of such gorgeous dark eyes, and... best of all... on a superficial level a chameleon who, at heart, and on a profound level, has something intangible yet unchanging deep within.

He's a treasure.

I am not normally this enchanted by anyone that I do not know personally, but for some reason or other, Tom Ford is just magical to me. I think if I met him, I would smile prettily and then faint dead away at his feet.

Mmmm, Tom Ford.

:)

Kali

[WiltonDiary]

03:39 AM on 06/02/2011

TomFord: Yes, I'll watch.

[Princess Mara]

07:21 AM on 06/04/2011

Who's Tom Ford?

[rongbeech]

12:23 AM on 06/02/2011

There is not a line on that gorgeous face! How does he do it?! Must be all those baths...

[WiltonDiary]

03:38 AM on 06/02/2011

The man is barley forty, why would he have lines? He also promotes his own skin care line.

[WiltonDiary]

04:08 AM on 06/02/2011

That should have been he is barley 50, as he will be in August!

[Princess Mara]

07:21 AM on 06/04/2011

Maybe all that BOTOX?

[LL NYC]

10:34 PM on 06/01/2011

Understand the promoting materialism in a way, but isn't fashion also art? It's beauty and fantasy, dreams and hopes and wishes. If we didn't have the beauty he and many others create, life would be so flat, dull and we'd want to die. While it's over promoted and advertised, there is a need for fashion, art and beauty. We need to stop and pay attention whether we can afford it or not, it can inspire us.

[WiltonDiary]

03:38 AM on 06/02/2011

Well said, thanks!

[Princess Mara]

07:25 AM on 06/04/2011

Be inispired by nature and the damaged state of our planet, rather than a bunch of self-absorbed NYC UES phonies dicatating what's "of the moment". Fashion is all fleeting, empty and forgotten in a nanosecond.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CAN INSPIRE US!

[Psychomantic]

07:03 PM on 06/04/2011

Ok, I'm not saying you're wrong, but I also wouldn't invite you to a party. Life itself is fleeting, empty and forgotten in a nanosecond, which is precisely why both intellectual and artistic pursuits have equal merit.

Just as all environmental/social activists aren't self-absorbed, self-congratulatory, condescending and boring (one assumes), nor are all of those interested in the art of clothing design "phonies". Fashion, art and social responsibility don't seem to me to be mutually exclusive and in fact all would likely be elevated through collaboration rather than petty and ill-informed snipery. (I may have just invented that word, but I like it, so there it is)

[julieJgoldengay]

09:28 PM on 06/01/2011

Good News...?
He's got Feelings.
Now, what ya Got,
In a size 13?
Big Daddy Ford.

[ZenCrusader]

08:58 PM on 06/01/2011

LOVE Tom Ford !

[veritas88]

07:06 PM on 06/01/2011

who has time to take 3-5 baths a day??

[tippisheadrun]

01:13 AM on 06/02/2011

Somebody who designs small, thin clothes for small, thin people.

[Princess Mara]

02:21 PM on 06/04/2011

Laughably overpriced clothes , for thin, arrogant, self-absorbed people...probably manufactured in some sweatshop overseas for slave wages.

[Princess Mara]

01:05 PM on 06/04/2011

Someone who must really stink!

[tizzylish]

04:47 PM on 06/01/2011

I love Tom....

[Contact1972]

12:42 PM on 06/02/2011

I love him more:-)

[Princess Mara]

07:26 AM on 06/04/2011

I loath Tom.

[Contact1972]

04:31 PM on 06/04/2011

I would never have guessed from all your crappy comments.

[Reticent2]

04:43 PM on 06/01/2011

Really? Someone in fashion who begins to think complexly about what he does? He better keep it to himself. He'll be shunned otherwise by the lock-step strivers and "Emperors New Clothes" set.