Peter Hawkings is exiting Tom Ford less than a year after taking over the creative director role from its eponymous founder, Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has confirmed. A successor has not yet been announced. “I would like to express my gratitude to Peter for his exceptional contributions to Tom Ford from the very beginning,” said Guillaume Jesel, president and CEO of Tom Ford and luxury business development at ELC, in a statement.
The Spring/Summer 2025 collection will be presented in the Milan showroom in September 2024. "I want to thank Peter for his collaboration since Tom Ford Fashion became . Along with his team, Peter has contributed to this important initial phase of development.
I wish him all the best in his next chapter,” added Lelio Gavazza, CEO of Tom Ford Fashion. Tom Ford himself stepped down from the brand in 2023 following its the year before. Hawkings made his debut as the brand’s creative lead in September 2023, following nearly 25 years working alongside its founder, first at Gucci and then at Tom Ford, which was established in 2005.
Until Ford’s exit in early 2023, Hawkings ran the brand’s menswear operation, which was based out of London and launched in 2007. Since taking on the creative director role, he has integrated the formerly US-based womenswear design studio into the London menswear operation. Shortly before showing that first collection, about the moment when, in November 2022, Ford privately revealed his plans to sell the brand an.