New York Fashion Week 2021: Gigi Hadid showed off Tom Ford’s disco glam spring/summer 2021 collection for a glitzy finale

Sep 14, 2021

Model Gigi Hadid walks the runway at the Tom Ford spring/summer 2022 fashion show at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week on September 12. Photo: AP Photo

Jennifer Hudson – who plays Aretha Franklin in the biopic Respect – Dan Levy and Julianne Moore attended the event, which took place the night before the Met Gala

Ford took inspiration from Los Angeles and sportswear for his ‘90s take on the 70s’: think sequinned party looks, animal print jackets and bold colours

The champagne was cold and the front row star studded Sunday night, September 12, as Tom Ford closed New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center with a spring/summer collection of hopeful, glitzy glam.

His 120 guests – mandatory masks on – were seated on long, soft white couches at the David H. Koch Theater as Ford’s models walked in capri pants and jacket sets of electric blue and pink, purple sequinned party looks and embellished gold crop jackets – some all at the same time as his soundtrack pushed the party along.

A model walks the runway at the Tom Ford spring/summer 2022 fashion show at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week on September 12. Photo: AP Photo

Ford, in his show notes, called the splashy show of sporty evening colour the “90s take of the 70s” that evokes the glossy casual vibe of Los Angeles, where he lives.

“It’s an almost airbrushed kind of beauty that starts to permeate the mind,” he said. He described the collection as “simple in cut but not in impact”.

Ford, the chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, significantly pared down his crowd to conclude New York’s first full in-person fashion week since the pandemic began. Dozens of designers spread out over Manhattan and Brooklyn to welcome generally smaller crowds with varying degrees of attention paid to Covid-19 precautions.

Models walk the runway at the Tom Ford spring/summer 2022 fashion show at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week on September 12. Photo: AP Photo

The six days of shows ended the night before the mini Met Gala, a huge evening for fashion that was cancelled last year due to the pandemic. Ford wound things up at the same time as the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards were underway in Brooklyn.

Jennifer Hudson, seated between Dan Levy and Julianne Moore, bounced to Aretha Franklin’s Respect as she took video of Ford’s show on her phone. Hudson plays Franklin in a new biopic of the same name as the mega hit.

A model presents a creation by Tom Ford during New York Fashion Week in Manhattan, New York City, on September 12. Photo: Reuters

Gigi Hadid was among Ford’s models, dressed in slinky – and shiny – evening joggers of bright blue, a crop electric green tank and a bronze jacket. Ford carried the green into trousers and jackets in an animal print. There were all-black looks for men and women, including a couple of corset tops, parachute pants and trench coats.