Tom Ford's rules for parenting...

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Children should wear shorts. I don't give a shit what TF says.

I loved Tom Ford but now I think he is a mean asshole about the light-up dinosaur shoes. What a dick. That poor kid.

I can't wait to read, "Daddy Dearest" by Jack Ford.

Kid’s living on easy street.

He's trying to teach his son how to not be a slob.

Good for him.

R5 Shorts do not equal slob. Have you never seen Winnie the Pooh? Christopher Robin always wears shorts, with out looking like a slob. Prince George has worn shorts, in fact it is the school uniform for many prestigious schools, in the younger grades.

He's mean and I hope he is reading this.

Yeah, I don’t get it, R6. My English dad wasn’t allowed to wear long trousers to school until he was twelve.

R8 Maybe its the Texas Cowboy in him? The only people I know where the boys don't seem to ever wear shorts are people I would call redneck cowboys, they are where the venn diagram of rednecks and cowboys converge. They wore jeans even when it was 100+/F.

Tom Ford hasn't figured out that his son is a human being, and not a dress up doll. Jack already resents him for this, and it will only continue to get worse over time.

R11 He just needs to tone it down a bit. My mama dressed me like a modern Little Lord Fauntleroy doll for most of my childhood, but not all the time. Just when we had somewhere nice to go or church. I grew up to dress Southern Preppy though there is a little Nashvegas in me when I dress for a party. I was constantly voted best dressed by various peer groups.

R12 what does Nashvegas style mean? Google wasn't helpful.

R13 It is a mashup of Nashville and Vegas, basically I can get a little flashy, if the situation is appropriate.

R11 nailed it: Tom is taking the "you're my child, hence a reflection of me" attitude to extremes. I'll wager good money that Jack will rarely, at best, ever feel handsome or satisfied with what he's wearing.

Telling a kid they aren't allowed to wear shorts is silly and barbaric.

I never wore shorts to school or light up dinosaur shoes and I grew up to be trendy and stylish

Nobody is going to talk about those sunglasses??

Ford isn't being "mean." That's the wrong word.

He's being too strict. And probably very unreasonable.

But I wouldn't call it mean.

It sounds like his kid's going to be a little bitch.

Real life footage of the Ford home, if you replace wire hanger with shorts.

[quote] Ford isn't being "mean." That's the wrong word.

That depends upon which definition one is using. It is not miserly, since he is most certainly buying expensive garments for his child. But, I think it could fall under the "unkind, spiteful, or unfair," definition.

Where's the lie, R4 & R21?

The kid will go wild when he’s a teenager. That shit works when they are little but good luck once he goes through puberty. The kid will wear whatever the fuck he wants. Especially since TF will be approaching 70. Please.

I bet the kid misses the dad who died. You would think wearing dinosaur shoes and shorts wouldn’t be such a big deal after one of his parents died of cancer. Great priorities.

He sounds like an asshole. This kid is going to end up with a face tattoo and blue hair as soon as it gets away from daddy.

[quote]The kid will go wild when he’s a teenager.

Could someone give me his number?

Wouldn't he want the child to be creative? Isn't he restricting that?

I just read the actual quotes - they aren't that bad. It's possible he wasn't being that serious about this and was just chatting with the interviewer ("ugh shorts! graphic t-shirts!") and the magazine ran with it.

He seems like a pretty involved parent and he doesn't plaster his kid all over social media like an accessory who can generate sponsored content (i.e. NPH and his poor dead-eyed twins), so honestly, whatever. He and the late husband waited a long time to have this one child, so it seems like something they really wanted.

Very sad for the kid losing the other father. Hopefully TF lives to be very old.

Tom Ford must have grown up impoverished if he’s putting his slum prudery out on the street like this.

Daddy Dearest, indeed! Does he also have to eat rare meat at the table even if he doesn't want it?

Fix Daddy a drink, Jack, and fetch my hyaluronic acid depuffing eye pads.

Do any of you seriously think Ford gets up in the AM to get the kid off to school versus the nanny, housekeeper or some other hired staffer?

And telling the kid the dinosaur shoes he thinks are the coolest things in the world are "tacky" is fucked up. The kid has zero idea what "tacky" mean, he just knows that Remaining Dad disapproves of the shoes and therefore him.

I will 100% guarantee you too that Remaining Dad gets completely bent out of shape when the kid actually plays in his fancy clothes and gets them dirty and messy and massive hissing ensues.

I love Tom Ford and this is a very old interview.

The dinosaur shoes are not allowed during the week but are allowed on weekends.

Tom Ford said that he has a very hard time with children's toys and at first tried to buy the kid color neutral, aesthetically pleasing toys, but relented and let him have all the bright plastic shit normal kids have. He just can't see it eyesight

Yes, I'm sure Jack will rebel. I saw in another interview where TF said that he can see them butting heads in the future and his son already likes pushing his buttons.

It will be interesting to see how it all goes. It doesn't seem like Anna Wintour's kids have acted out. One is a dorky married MD in his thirties and her daughter seems to be low profile other than the galas. I remember the daughter saying she hated fashion and would never work for Vogue.

[quote] I never wore shorts to school or light up dinosaur shoes and I grew up to be trendy and stylish

I'm sorry to tell you you're not the believable judge as to whether or not you're stylish.

[quote] It doesn't seem like Anna Wintour's kids have acted out.

It helps to have kept them in small cages for most of their childhoods.

It also helps that she was in her 30s when they were kids AND the father was around

[quote] this is a very old interview.

Given that his husband died fairly recently, how old can it be?

[quote] The dinosaur shoes are not allowed during the week but are allowed on weekends.

Still a dick move--imposing his needs and wants on his kid, sending the message that fun is bad

[quote]It helps to have kept them in small cages for most of their childhoods.

Had I only known.

[quote] And telling the kid the dinosaur shoes he thinks are the coolest things in the world are "tacky" is fucked up. The kid has zero idea what "tacky" mean,

That's not entirely true, I learned what was tacky almost as soon as I learned to talk.

Odds are that the boy is one of the 98% of children who is not gay from birth R39

R39 I'm bi, but my mother made it very clear to teach me what was tacky and what wasn't.

R42 Then hop off and fuck like a bunny.

Why are bisexual men on a gay site?

They don’t understand gay culture.

Tom Ford takes 4 baths a day. I seriously doubt he is going to have to do much heavy lifting with or without the husband. He said he used to be nude all the time but had to start wearing clothes once he had a kid because the nanny's room is down the hall.

Once puberty hits, I will happily help Jack select a jockstrap.

Jack is a child, not a robot.