What Tom Won´t Let His Son Wear

Whether he's designing clothes or making movies, Tom Ford is known as an arbiter of style - so it's no surprise that his four-year-old son, Jack, will have inherited his good taste. No neon character T-shirts for the young Master Buckley-Ford, his palette of choice is decidedly more grown-up than that.

“Camel, camel, camel, camel,” Ford complained in an interview with GQabout his son's favoured hue, “all he wanted was camel.” He has now moved on to black, despite being told by his father: "Black doesn’t really look good on little children. You need to wear some colour.” To which the toddler concedes, “Okay, grey.”

But - like all small children - Jack has one item that he loves despite his parent's disapproval: a pair of questionable light-up shoes that Ford consents to being worn only when appropriate.

“What does Dada say about the dinosaur shoes?” Ford revealed he asks his son. “They’re tacky.” “And when are we allowed to wear them?” “On weekends,” the child grudgingly responded, a pair of Velcro Stan Smiths revealed as the toddler-friendly compromise.