Tom Ford Exposed

"We've become plastic, objectifying the human body…waxed and polished and buffed and shined up and manipulated," Ford says. "And then, of course, I'm portrayed as the one doing the manipulating, the polishing, buffing, shaping, which is what I do. It's just what we do. What the fashion industry does."

In other Tom Ford news, this month will see the first fruits of Estee Lauder's marriage with Tom Ford, the man for whom sex and style are virtually synonymous writes Style.com. "We've always tried to position ourselves where we're selling something that's really sexy," says Leonard Lauder, the company chairman. "That's the cornerstone of Estee Lauder."