"ISN'T ONE OF YOUR first questions, like: What the hell are you doing in Palm Beach?"
Here is Tom Ford, the King of Sex, looking still, at 62, very much like the King of Sex-if not terribly Palm Beachy. He's wearing heavily distressed blue jeans and a blue denim shirt with few enough pearl buttons fastened to reveal an impressively muscular chest gilded in hair, plus black Chelsea boots and a Texas Timex-a gold Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch that he bought on Place Vendôme in Paris during his 10-year reign at Gucci.
Ford has agreed to an exit interview capping his historic three-decade-long fashion and beauty career, saying he is willing to discuss anything and everything under the condition that I come to Palm Beach, where he is currently living with his 11-year-old son, Jack. Since stepping away from fashion earlier this year, Ford has largely declined interviews-until this one. As we talk, I find myself thinking that part of the reason he acquiesced is simply because he's lonely. "I'm not used to sitting around talking about myself anymore," Ford says. "It feels very bizarre. I have no mate, no partner, no adult in my life. I talk about, you know, Minecraft, YouTube, Messi. So just having an adult conversation at all is a bizarre thing for me."
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