Richard Buckley, the quietly influential fashion journalist and Tom Ford’s husband, has died at the age of 72
Richard Buckley Photo: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images Richard Buckley, a quietly influential fashion journalist whose early work appeared in this magazine, Vanity Fair, and Mirabella and then became editor-in-chief of Vogue Hommes International from 1999 to 2005, has died at the age of 72.
November 25, 1986, was their first date. At that first meeting, Ford, who was 25 at the time, told Buckley that in ten years, he’d be a millionaire and a successful designer. Yikes, Buckley thought. But Ford beat expectations. Over the years, Buckley was a confidante, inspiration, adviser, supporter, and the person who knew all the gossip that Ford would never tell.
On his strengths as an editor, via WWD : “In 1982, he moved to Paris as the European editor of Fairchild Publications’ Daily News Record, the men’s wear counterpart to WWD. In that and subsequent roles, he had the uncanny ability to spot what was ‘next’ — the young designer who would become the Next Big Thing; a club everyone would soon be flocking to, or a musician, actor or actress set to explode onto the scene.
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