November 14, 2025 |
Svelte, slender and sexy, Tom Ford has always been a brand about distilled desire – high glamour pared back to its most confident, sensual form. Under Haider Ackermann’s hand, that desire becomes movement: softer and more fluid. The 2026 resort collection feels like a continuation of this shift, a gentle but deliberate refinement of the house’s iconic codes. As Ackermann writes in the collection notes, “I like to imagine my moves within the rooms that Tom Ford built as a dance. Dancing, in fact, requires a harmony of steps, gracefulness of gestures, and poises that evolve one into the other, seamlessly. This is an apt metaphor for the way I keep going forward, following the flow of intuitions and gut feelings, delving again and again into a world of desire.”
Leather remains central, but its message is new. Instead of bold armour, it’s used with a lighter touch that feels pliable, elegant and deeply tactile. Tailoring stays at the heart of the brand, sharpened with Ackermann’s distinctive grace: trousers that lengthen the line of the body, jackets that balance confidence with ease, all without excess.
Menswear embodies a kind of sun-lit nonchalance. Robes and pyjamas step outdoors, colours shimmer subtly against the house’s familiar blacks and neutrals and accessories – velvet slippers, soft oversized bags – hint at a life spent drifting between cities with a quiet self-assurance.
For women, the collection reaches upwards. There’s a strong verticality in the sharp tailoring and in dresses that move with a liquid-like glide. Leather brings structure; pajama dressing adds softness. Patterns – pinstripes, dots – give a gentle jolt of energy. The palette moves from sorbet pastels to rich browns and blues, anchored by the black and white Tom Ford can never do without.
It’s all unmistakably Ford, but filtered through Ackermann’s instinctive lightness. A brand built on precision now feels a little freer, a little more intuitive – still sexy, but with a new kind of grace.
Photography courtesy of Tom Ford.
