Tom Ford is a fashion designer who ventured into directing. But it seems he’s making a larger career out of shading celebrities these days. I guess do what you love, right? While on the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, he didn’t name names – although I’m sure he wanted to – but he did offer up his thoughts on injectables. According to TF, everyone is overdoing it. Specifically, celebrities. Tom asked, “Oh my God, what do they see when they look in the mirror?”
Tom Ford isn’t holding back in his opinion about celebrity beauty standards.
The 61-year-old fashion designer was a guest on the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, where he opened up about how many of them have become harmful, not only to the celebrity, but their fans as well.
Tom shared on the program that “people are injecting way too many things in their face…You look at a lot of celebrities now and you just think ‘Oh my God, what do they see when they look in the mirror?”
He then added that “they don’t even look like themselves any longer.”
Tom also spoke about the celebrities taking part in the cosmetic procedures are going too far and compared it to a form of dysmorphia.
“It is truly dysmorphia. I think a lot of these people lose touch with who they were; they see a line and they think they have to fill it; they see a wrinkle and they’ve got to fill it; They see someone else’s mouth and they think they need to have that,” he says.
I’m not going to agree with Tom, but I don’t think he’s entirely wrong. There are celebrities that suffer from dysmorphia, of course, and that’s a very sad thing. I truly hope they get the help they need for that. I agree that some people get overzealous and fill any line that appears simply because they liked the results of the last one. Unfortunately, the overall effect leads to a general homogenizing of their features. But maybe they prefer that look to the lines, I don’t know. Tom’s question, “oh my God, what do they see when they look in the mirror?” is predicated on his belief that, “they don’t even look like themselves any longer.” But perhaps that individual can’t see themselves in the lined face looking back at them either. I’m not defending plastic surgery, I’m just saying folks are just out here doing what they need to to get by. Tom is, in my opinion, a nice looking man. If he has not had any work done, he’s won some genetic lottery and should thank whatever sunscreen he’s using for his 61-year-old taught skin. But also recognize that affects the ease with which one can dismiss the sirens call of Botox or other tweaks.
I just want people to look in the mirror and feel joy with the person looking back at them. Not to hide a piece of them, not because a magazine made them feel bad, not because someone else’s negative whisper still rings in their ears, but because they like the look of that face staring at them. So it’s not that I don’t understand what Tom is talking about, I do. I’m just feeling more generous to people as I age. Let them be them, whatever that looks like.
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This is such an amazing post.
I love the idea of just wanting people to like what they see in the mirror, & let people do that how they can.
Now. I don’t like Tom at all. He’s such a snobby snot.
I think Tom has definitely had botox himself, but I agree with him. Especially when you look at the whole buccal fat trend. It’s literally a trend and people are having irrevocable work done to their faces for a trend. Buccal fat removal is not like filler or botox – the effects are permanent. It’s also a part of the face that keeps the skin young looking. So these young starlets having this permanent procedure done because it’s trendy will then have to go get fillers to fill in the space when they get older and their cheeks start to sag from it. It’s such a vicious cycle. I hate the idea that young people are treating their bodies like trends.
“I think Tom has definitely had botox himself”
^^ Came to say this.
LOL, Tom never met a plastic surgeon, that he didn’t like, next he will be talking about older men and teenage boys.
He’s still not wrong though. Because even with his work – he hasn’t completely changed his face to the point of no longer looking like himself. And I honestly think a lot of the need to continually alter one’s face comes from the fact that everyone around them has done so and it becomes normalized in the bubble they live in.
Tom’s had LOADS of work done! What a freaking hypocrit. The only distinction is Tom clearly thinks he looks like himself, where others don’t. Tom looks like a stretched version of himself, for sure.
There are trends affecting face and bodies and people repeatedly butcher themselves for both. But there is money to be made and many, many people will partake to get that money, both the butchers and those who jump on the wagon to model the new look.
Can you imagine the world in which woman are allowed to look like themselves, exactly as is? We do it to ourselves and our sisters and we need to stop.
He’s had a whole ass face lift what is he talking about?
I mean yes fillers make people look weird when taken too far but wow, pot/kettle
Word. I’m 48, and I look like a grandma compared to his weirdly unmovable face.
Oh, he’s had work done. At the very least, he’s Botoxed to hell and back. That top photo also looks suspiciously like there could have been a facelift involved. That’s all fine, he works in an industry where looks are money. But this is the narrative of “good” and “bad” plastic surgery and injectibles etc. I don’t believe in this moralizing. I think we do need to examine the marketing around plastic surgery and shady doctors doing horrible things to faces and bodies that cannot take this much cutting and injecting. We should also think about what our faces may look like in 30 years. We really don’t know how that stuff will affect your aging process. But yeah, Tom Ford of all people needs to stop judging.
Sexagenarian white guy with smooth, unwrinkled forehead says WHAT? lol. I do appreciate the message though.
Not to defend him but I do not think he’s denying he had done any Botox or filller but that celebs are going overboard and looking like someone else. Hr actually looks great
I was coming to say the same thing! I didn’t see anyone here defending Courtney Cox when her face was full of filler, everyone was saying she did too much. I agree with Tom, the over filled face is becoming so normalized that now people are starting to aspire to it. At y young ages. And they look awful, and it IS a form of dysmorphia.
I don’t think he looks like himself anymore, actually, so I don’t think he looks great. Something is quite odd around his eyes and he’s pulled too tight. He looks vaguely uncomfortable.
Tom has been pretty open about getting botox in the past, though he said he stopped years ago. I imagine it could be strange to be surrounded by people who feel they have to chase a youthful look only for it to fundamentally alter their faces over time.
Tom looks great for 61. I didn’t realize he was in his 60s. He’s definitely had a little work but it was good conservative work. I know exactly what he’s talking about and it’s hard not to look at some of theses folks and think there must be an underlying mental reason they are doing this to themselves. It’s very sad really.
I can’t imagine seeing it up close as a part of the industry, it must be quite unsettling to watch someone you know go through that up close.
Ugh…I love Tom Ford and his snobbery. To me he has the right touch of snob. I love him. And he’s right. There is way too much injecting going on, though Tom has had old school eye lift done a few years back.
I’m with you. I love how bitchy he is. And I don’t think he’s against all cosmetic procedures, he’s just commenting about those who overdo it. I don’t want to name names either, but I will say that there was an actress I saw in a new Apple+ series that I absolutely did not recognize, except by her voice, because she looked so puffy. At first I thought she had been ill and that’s why she looked like that, but my partner said she’s probably putting a lot of those injectibles in her face.
You watched Shrinking and the actress is Christa Miller. Who has been doing this shot to herself since around Cougar Town and it’s been terrible from day one. She is beautiful and never needed to start with the fillers in the first place. Now she can never stop. It’s depressing.
This is classic Tom Ford snark. He does not sugar coat things and shoots from the hip.
He has clearly had Botox in the past, but I am guessing that what he is aggrieved by is how many cosmetic procedures people are having.
Tom Ford superfan here! Did you see the guy that is the new creative director for his label (that I know he sold). He looks like he’s trying to be BE Tom Ford. The pics of him I saw look like he just took a pic of Tom Ford and said – yes, I’ll wear that. LOL
Lol, you mean Peter Hawkings? I get as creative director you have to embody the brand, but eesh, maybe be a little more subtle about it.
I hadn’t realized Ford sold his company. It makes sense, after the death of his husband he’s a single parent to a young child and can’t be the globetrotting workaholic he used to be.
Same. I appreciate how exacting he is, and enjoy his opinions on almost everything – even if I don’t always agree with them. That said, I know in my soul we would never be friends because I am too much of a hot mess to get his seal of approval.
I laughed because this post appeared directly above the post about Khloe Kardashian’s baby, which featured a thumbnail of her overworked face. Anyway, I agree with Tom Ford on that point, but it’s also pretty rich for someone like him to make this observation, seeing as how he has clearly had work done on his face and works in an industry that prizes youth and thinness above all else.
I think of botox and fillers as tiny deals with the Devil. You pay a price and look amazing for awhile. Then they dissolve and your face comes crashing down, worse than before (because your skin has been stretched and your facial muscles, weakened). You keep doing it, and the more you do, the freakier you become, but because it’s gradual, you don’t notice and are just relieved that something’s being done. It’s Dorian Gray, just as a fluctuating image on your face. Let’s just say, when those people on tik tok collectively dissolved their fillers, they all looked better in the “afters” IMHO.
It’s not so much moralizing as it is an observation, which we’ve all done on this site. There is great work—small tweaks that make the person look like themselves but fresher, or ironically, “aging gracefully”. And then there’s Madonna and Co. There IS such a thing as overdoing it and it’s largely due to the spirit of other people thinking, “as long as they’re happy” that it goes unchecked. You would stage an intervention for someone suffering other forms of addiction; those addicted to excessive surgery and injectables are also in need of loved ones willing to be their mirrors and telling them they need help.
Tom does look great, that’s for sure. And he does look like himself. So I think what he’s criticizing the crazily overdone stuff and the homogenized look of people in Hollywood. No one looks like him but him. Also, the pressure, of course, is on the ladies to look good, so they have that extra sexist burden and the credible threat that they won’t get work if they don’t look much younger than they are. And they are 100 percent right about that. It’s notorious that women out of their twenties and certainly after the age of 40, have a career slow down. Not ALL of course, but many.
Says the man with the forehead full of botox. Give me a break.
Faces don’t always age the same way. I know 80 yr olds with smooth foreheads but saggy jaws & a wrinkly chins. We all know people who are no longer recognizable or just freakishly overdone. Kim Novak was once so beautiful but now looks like an anti-plastic surgery poster woman. Or Lara Flynn Boyle? Jane Fonda tweaked a little in between Grace & Frankie & 80 for Brady but I’d bet she’s smart enough to quit while she’s ahead. Khloe is unrecognizable from her time on You’re Fired, or even when she was with LaMar.
I would LOVE to look like Jane Fonda does now.
She has admitted that she feels she went too far and said “enough” but she also managed to still retain her JANE FONDA-ness. She still looks like herself, and the woman is in her mid/late 80’s. Let’s give it up for Jane, she’s awesome!
Has he not….. built a career in image aspiration?
Yes, there is a difference between a pair of sunglasses and a part of your face, but….. coming from the guy who’s driving so much from a consumer standpoint….
I don’t think TF is saying “NO!” to all cosmedical work, and I believe he’s had subtle Botox in his forehead for years now (and no doubt some skin resurfacing procedures). I believe what he’s saying is that it’s a very slippery slope and over time, many ppl swim so far out that they lose sight of the shore, they lose sight of their OG selves. I think we all know Khloe is having a very hard time overcoming this dysmorphic phenomenon.
I’m all for subtle work, freshen ups used sparingly, and never lose sight of the shore. Remember that addressing yet another wrinkle with fillers will also take you further from a more authentic face and closer to a RHW face.
Geez. I’ve lived thru some sh*t at 61. I don’t give a hot damn what my face looks like.
For all his years of work and to get to his level of accomplishment in his career, why is he having anything done anymore?
These celebs need to start bucking the BS trend.
Multi-Millionaires who are still working in fashion, Tom Ford could do a lot to bring the trends around to “Aging is the new look.”
The old school movie actors like Bogart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant looked good naturally.
Most of HW are all looking alike these days.
Keanu Reeves, I am a life long fan, but even he should change his look.
I know he’s had work done, look at his forehead. But the John Wick look is 6-10 years old.
Let the grey hair and beard show. Get a trim. Look your age, be glad you made it this far!
I know, it is HW and fashion. I might as well talk to the wall.
Jane Fonda has had a LOT of work done.
She admits it and talks openly.
At 85 she can do whatever she wants to, about every part of her life.
But we all know she and others look good in full face makeup, hair/wig, very expensive stylish clothes. Dolly Parton and Cher also.
Right outta the shower, most of us look about as you’d expect.
Fonda is very fit and talks about how much work she puts into it too.
Lilly T. on Grace and Frankie, at one scene, drops down and duck walks down the hallway as she talks about how Yoga helps me in so many ways! Duck walks! Dammit, Lilly is winning at aging. 👍 in her late 70’s-early 80’s.
Agree with Tom. He’s not talking about people who get a little Botox.
Same. It’s those damn fillers!
Just this week a friend has sent me pictures of Barry Manilow, who is unrecognizable, and Meg Ryan, who I was able to tell was her around the eyes, that’s it. And of course Madonna, the literal poster child for too much surgery.
No one is saying Tom hasn’t had work done, but he still looks like himself, which is his POINT.
Does he own a mirror?
Personally, I think Tom looks great. And Jane Fonda looks fantastic. They both are doing it EXACTLY right. They look like themselves (not aliens), only YEARS younger, which is the whole purpose of plastic surgery/dermatological intervention.