After showing during London Fashion Week, a video of Tom Ford’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection relaesed today. It’s the first time that images of his collection appear in the web as the release of imagery for his past seasons collections has been restricted. The video comes in a preppy 60’s look featuring cocktail dresses and pencil skirts in candy color and glossy black. Watch the video here above!

Neiman Marcus selling Tom Ford’s bags online is actually very major. If you are a fashion blogger you know it is virtually impossible to come accross online imagery of Tom Ford’s bags because until now he has allowed them to be featured exactly nowhere. Over at Purseblog, where we spotted this news, the hope was for a more “distinctive” collection, and it is true, the bags are quite in line with current trends toward clean lines and natural leathers, that being said there’s something simply chic about Ford’s interpretation and based on what I’ve seen of Ford’s bags in store, the images are probably not doing the leathers and details an iota of justice.

See more bags on the next page.

Best known for organizaing NY Fashion week as we know it, Fern Mallis interviews Tom Ford for non-profit cultural center 92Y.

Chanel Iman wearing  a design by Tom Ford who accompanied her to the Met Gala. See full length on next page.

A view from the back of Rihanna’s Tom Ford dress, worn to the Met Gala last night. I want to say this is the first time she’s ever been dressed by him. Am I right or wrong, fashion fanatics?

A little something for the Fordnatics…..you know who you are, have a look at Tom Ford’s Spring Summer 2012 sandal line up. Tom makes the details pop and as always goes his own way. See the above shoe in more colors, plus additional silhouettes on the next page.

I popped into Bergdorf Goodman’s (the store with all the Spring collections in full bloom looks amazing!) yesterday, and had the funnest chat with a gentleman working one of the bag departments on the first floor. When I asked him who was ruling the department this Spring, he unhesitatingly named Tom Ford. Yes, there are bigger, more established names, he explained, but for the Bergdorf customer looking to update her aready vast “it” bag collection, Tom Ford is the name she’s turning to this season.

And indeed, up close, the bags’ workmanship, hardware and materials story really are quite amazing. I wanted to post an image of a black clutch featuring a dramatically oversized zipper, but alas there are few pics of Tom Ford merch to be found on the web, no doubt exactly how Ford wants it! Instead, above is a Tom Ford bag pic pulled from Bergdorf’s Spring catalog. Behold the richness!

Through Vogue, Tom Ford distributes images of his Spring 2012 collection, first shown during London Fashion Week. In a season where everyone seemed to be celebrating prints, Ford stayed in a decidedly solid lane with the line overall having a more evening than daytime feel, with the best pieces his red-carpet-perfect evening gowns like the one featured above.

Looking through the images, thoughts of Gucci kept springing to mind, which has to be expected. As a result of his strategy to position the label in an ultra-low profile manner, there haven’t been many opportunities for an iconic look to emerge and be identified as distinctly Tom Ford rather than the label where he made his name. If it’s Ford’s intent to stay very limited to the point where he’s almost doing custom designing then that strategy could work, but if he wants to be a bit more mass with retail stores not to mention perfumes and whatnot he may need to loosen up a bit when it comes to letting the public in.

More images on the next page.

This image is going viral on all the fashion sites–it’s a backstage shot taken at Tom Ford’s London Fashion week show, taken by runway model Candice Swanepoel, who Twittered it (and indeed it is still there on her page as I type this). This is a big deal because Ford has set himself up as the anti-internet designer who wants nothing to do with anything instantaneous and is very protective when it comes to images being taken at his shows. Then again, if no attempt is being made to remove the image one has to wonder if its leak wasn’t given the downlow okay.

On the next page, see Swanepoel in a Tom Ford black lace dress she recently wore to an event honoring Mario Testino. Next to her in the first image is model Rosie Huntington wearing Burberry.

Tom Ford has released the print campaign for a unisex scent (plus shower gel, bath soap, etc.) called Neroli Portofino. We spotted this at Fashioncopious, where the ad is viewed as a bit cheap. We can’t say we’re over the moon for it either, but we see this as more of an ongoing theme of Ford being somewhat stuck in the style themes of his salad days with Gucci. That being said, we see this as a normal part of the process of reentering the game–even when you’re one of the great ones–you stumble a bit, but stay undeterred and focused and eventually you hit your stride.