<div class="flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow"><div data-message-author-role="assistant" data-message-id="39b4fbae-e2ad-46c5-a19f-ef0d7eb61ad9" dir="auto" class="min-h-[20px] text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto whitespace-normal"><div class="flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]"><div class="markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light"> Following the departure of Peter Hawkings, who left the helm of the brand after just one year, Haider Ackermann has been appointed as the new creative director of Tom Ford, the brand founded by the famous director and designer.</div></div></div></div>

"It is with immense pride that I will seek to honor the legacy of Tom Ford, a man I have always admired and for whom I have the utmost respect." This is the first statement released by the new creative director of the fashion house founded in 2005 by the famous director and designer <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/peter-hawkings-leaves-tom-ford" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Ford</a> , owned by the Est&eacute;e Lauder group since 2023.

Who is Haider Ackermann?

<a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/haider-ackermann-artistic-director-of-canada-goose-jane-fonda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haider Ackermann</a> , born in Bogot&aacute;, Colombia, in 1971, was adopted at nine months by a French family. He grew up between Ethiopia, Chad, Algeria and, finally, France, before moving to the Netherlands during his adolescence. Always "inspired by the work of Yves Saint Laurent " - as he declared to Mark C. O'Flaherty in 2017 - , in 1994 he moved to Belgium to study fashion at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, from which he was expelled in 1997.
After an internship with John Galliano , Ackermann worked as an assistant for Belgian designer Wim Neels and other brands such as Bernhard Willhelm and Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe, before becoming a designer for Mayerline. In 2001, she launched her own label and presented her first womenswear collection during Paris Fashion Week.
If in 2009 Ackermann was among the candidates to succeed Galliano at Dior and Martin Margiela at his eponymous fashion house - as revealed by Susannah Frankel in 2012 on the pages of the Independent -, a year later, in 2010 Karl Lagerfeld described him as his ideal successor at the helm of Chanel in a famous interview given to Vogue by the Kaiser of fashion. In 2013 he launched a menswear collection and in 2016 he collaborated with Berluti as creative director, introducing a more fluid and feminine aesthetic in his designs. In 2024 he was appointed creative director of Canada Goose.

When will Tom Ford&#39;s first show be?

In his role as creative director, Haider Ackermann will report to both Guillaume Jesel, president and CEO of Tom Ford and luxury business development at Est&eacute;e Lauder , and Lelio Gavazza, head of Tom Ford Fashion at the Ermenegildo Zegna Group , which is the licensee of the brand - which is why Tom Ford has shown in Milan, Italy, in recent seasons. There is also a change of pace on this front. In fact, Ackermann will be based in Paris and will debut the ready-to-wear collection in the French capital next March, during <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/fashion-week-calendar-spring-summer-2025-milan-paris-london-new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Fashion Week</a> .

Haider Ackermann is Tom Ford's new creative director

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