Fashion blogging can be a sketchy business. First there was a brawl between bloggers Daniel Saynt of Fashion Indie and Sarah Conley and Julie Frederickson of Coutorture. Now, a fashion blogger in New Mexico had his computer gear looted in the middle of the night. Strangely, he had been broadcasting webcam images of his designer neighbor Tom Ford building his new home.
The Italian Advertising Institute recently banned this ad for Tom Ford shades, reports Radar. It's already run in a few mags, apparently, and the IAI let slide even racier images of junk-clutching and misogynistic laundering. Says the IAI of the shot, "[It] goes beyond acceptable limits for advertising aimed at the general public."
Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, two of the world's most well-respected sniffers, are days away from the release of their illuminating and entertaining new book, Perfumes: The Guide. Below, they sound off on Tom Ford's cocaine-and-crotch controversy, slathering George Clooney in rancid butter, and how to decode fragrance-speak. What's "fresh" actually mean? God only nose.
Luca Turin is a biophysicist who specializes in the art of fragrance. In 1992, he wrote his first book on scent, which was the best-selling tome of its kind in France. (Mostly because it was the only book of its kind in France, jokes Turin.) Tania Sanchez is a successful writer and poet, the sour to Turin's sweet, who has traded editorial advice for free perfume. Together, they've written Perfumes: The Guide, a comprehensive, lighthearted, hilarious look at, well, almost every perfume and cologne ever made. It's at once illuminating and silly, but make no mistake, these two take their noses very seriously. Says Turin of the book's imminent release, "I don't have a lot of perfumer friends, but I think that number is going to go down, not up." After the jump, their scents and sensibilities.
Well, this was bound to happen: Months after king of all fashion Tom Ford posed naked with “teammates” in a highly publicized Out shower spread, Tom Ford For Men has released a series of toiletries that includes an Eau du Toilette, aftershave, body lotion, and, yes, some soap (on a rope!). Full disclosure: We’ve been using the rope soap for the past week, and it’s amazing—a real post-game locker room luxury! Pick some up online at Saks.
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