The higher the heel, the shorter the dress. While a great majority of the fashion world embraced discretion and function, Tom Ford put out everything but the bedpost and the handcuffs at London Fashion Week. It wasn’t only mini-dresses, nano-skirts and killer high heels, there were also suits and full length gowns. But with, um, nipple pasties.

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The higher the heel, the shorter the dress. While a great majority of the fashion world embraced discretion and function, Tom Ford put out everything but the bedpost and the handcuffs at London Fashion Week. It wasn’t only mini-dresses, nano-skirts and killer high heels, there were also suits and full length gowns. But with, um, nipple pasties.

Yves Saint Laurent once said: “I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.” In his last catwalk at LFW, Tom Ford seems to be following that same principle. There is one word that cuts to the essence of Ford’s style: sexy.

It’s easy to follow the trail. We’re talking about the man who once put a bottle of his Tom Ford for Men fragrance between a model’s naked thighs for one of his ads. The man who’s revitalised labels like Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci (who can forget those sex-saturated Gucci years!)

Back to the show, there were metallic miniskirts, baby-doll dresses with sheer bra tops, leopard and snakeskin print platforms and sequinned body-fitting tops. And it ended with this long white goddess gown cut in front to reveal breasts covered with silver flowers. 

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In the end, most reach the same conclusion. As extravagant as some of the pieces of the collection looked, they have their audience (Rihanna and Miley Cyrus have probably already placed some orders). And for the rest, we can admire or not this aesthetic, but we can’t deny Tom Ford is still forging the path of fashion today.