'I hate the word masculine': Fashion designer Tom Ford says 'sleeping with men doesn't make you gay'

Tom Ford has said he hates the word 'masculine' and insists that sleeping with men doesn't make you gay in a provocative new interview.

Amid another wildly successful yet chaotic New York Fashion Week, the ageless style icon, 56, talked about his new line and how both fashion and sexuality have grown more fluid.

The Tom Ford collection debuted its 2018 spring assemblage this week, and recently debuted fragrances like 'F***ing Fabulous' and 'Noir Anthracite' — which the designer described to be 'not particularly masculine' in aura.

'I hate that word,' Ford told The Telegraph this week. 'I think most men would smell it and instantly think it was masculine ... but to me, it's just a very classic men's fragrance.

'It's perhaps more men-centric but essentially I create unisex scents.

'If you love something and it smells great, why shouldn't you wear it? Why can't a man wear a beautiful peony-based fragrance?'

Ford told the Hollywood Reporter after the film's nomination he's in an amazing place now after years of feeling like 'an outsider' as a young boy.

At the time, Ford said he wasn't fully aware of his sexuality.

'I knew (I) didn't belong. I was one of the youngest kids in the class because I jumped ahead [a year], so I was always the smallest,' he said. 'I hated team sports. I was more artistic than [I was] a football player.'

Ford said luckily, he's seen a time where people are allowed to be their genuine selves.

'What's great about this new generation is that they're growing up in a culture where anything goes ... If you're a guy who paints his nails, that doesn't mean anything. You're a man sleeping with a man? So what, that doesn't mean you're gay.'

Likewise though, the average man is concerned about compromising his masculinity.

'I think that men have always been just as vain and cared just as much (about their appearance) as women, but our culture perhaps didn't support it,' said Ford.

'Let's look at the 18th century; those guys would go around with little red heels, lace, face powder, beauty marks. There have been moments in time where men expressed their vanity and didn't worry about whether that compromised their masculinity.'

The brilliant creative director has prospered from his popular, versatile and statement-making collection that appeals to both sexes alike.

Source :DailyMail

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