At last evening's 2014 Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards which recognizes extraordinary design excellence in: womenswear, menswear, accessories, as well as accomplishments in journalism, and creative vision, Tom Ford was bestowed the prestigious CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of success in fashion.

Ford, who had helmed Gucci and YSL up to 2004 and had in 2005 launched his eponymous label, had recently embarked on an expansion of his footprint into South East Asia, opening its first flagship store at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore http://senat.us/TomFordSG