Bridget Foley’s Diary: Tom Ford, Kinetic Chairman for the CFDA

Tightening New York Fashion Week was just the beginning. Now, approaching his first runway season as CFDA chairman, Tom Ford is shaking things up in other ways as well. The bullet points: 1. He has appointed four new members to the board, and, to make room, rotated four others to “emeritus status.” (That’s really a thing.) 2. He plans to change the CFDA’s yearlong calendar, “streamlining” the numerous small events it holds throughout the year into two conferences, one each in New York and L.A. 3. He is establishing an advisory board of non-designer industry people. Tom Ford  Rob Latour/Shutterstock In a conversation last week, Ford, who was elected chairman of the organization last March, discussed these measures. Top of the list, the new arrivals to the board: Virgil Abloh, Maria Cornejo, Carly Cushnie and Kerby Jean-Raymond. They assume seats opened up by the shifts to non-voting emeritus status (read: exits) of Kara Ross, Georgina Chapman, Marcus Wainwright and Mimi So. Ford said the four were informed of their status change via letters early last month, and they responded positively. He expects to call on all four for their opinions from time to time. “I’m rearranging the board so that it is more diverse in age and more

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