Tom Ford & Richard Buckley – 33 years

Three decades ago, fashion designer Tom Ford met journalist, Richard Buckley. They fell in love in 1986 at a mutual friend’s Fashion Show on New Year’s Eve. At that romantic flooring of the runway, it was love at first sight, said Ford on The Jess Cagle Interview.

It all started in 1986, when Ford worked for Cathy Hardwick and Buckley was the fashion editor of the newspaper in the industry. Ford stopped to pick up some clothes and he and Barkley took the elevator to the fashion cabinet. Ford writes: Buckley was adorable, and try to be charming. I decided to marry him in that elevator.” The couple is now in their 33rd year of being together and counting. They share a son, six-year-old Alexander John Buckley Ford. What’s their secret? The people from Vogue were dying to know, so Tom shared it with them, saying that it was their great respect for one another that kept their love strong through all these years.

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