Gus Van Sant, an Award-Winning writer, producer, and director sits down to talk with one of the fashion industry’s most well known name that is Tom Ford for Interview Magazine. A defining force in fashion from the mid-’90s to the mid-’00s, Tom Ford has now landed himself a new debut role as a filmmaker for A Single Man, an adaptation of a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood. The interview touches on their connections between Andy Warhol and ‘Kenny’ and George’, the characters in Ford’s film.

I THINK PEOPLE WHO ARE ATTRACTED TO THE FASHION INDUSTRY ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY INSECURE AND LOOKING FOR A CERTAIN IDENTITY. I THINK THAT’S INITIALLY HOW PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO IT.—TOM FORD

Read the rest of the interview here at Interview Magazine.