FASHION designer and film director Tom Ford smiled his way past the cameras on the red carpet of the BAFTAs in London wearing a self-designed suit (of course). He told reporters he didn’t specially make the suit in his usual arrogant and devilishly confident way, and revealed that his women’s wear line would be debuted soon enough.

On accepting his Best Actor BAFTA for playing a gay academic in Ford’s A Single Man, Colin Firth revealed how he almost turned the part down.

“What Tom Ford doesn’t know is I have the email in my outbox telling him I could not possibly do this.”

“I was about to send this when a man came to repair my fridge…I don’t know what’s best for me so I would like to thank the fridge guy.”

49-year-old Firth praised the designer in his debut directing role, and described how an encounter with Ford is “to come away feeling resuscitated, a little more worldly, better groomed, more fragrant, and more nominated than one has ever been before.”

“I have worked with a lot of great directors and he’s up there with the best of them.”

Is there anything Tom can’t do?

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