{"id":61671,"date":"2022-08-01T20:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=61671"},"modified":"2022-08-01T20:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:06:06","slug":"estee-lauder-tom-ford","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/estee-lauder-tom-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Est\u00e9e Lauder Reportedly in Talks to Buy Tom Ford for $3 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61672\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61672 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/08\/estee-lauder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">22 October 2020, Hamburg: The logo of the Est\u00e9e Lauder brand, taken from a Douglas store on Jungfernstieg. Photo: Daniel Reinhardt\/dpa (Photo by Daniel Reinhardt\/picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Major merger news came out via the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> on Monday, after the outlet reported that Est\u00e9e Lauder is in talks to buy Tom Ford, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The news follows a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-07-07\/luxury-brand-tom-ford-is-said-to-explore-potential-sale\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em> report in early July that the fashion brand hired Goldman Sachs to explore a potential sale. If Est\u00e9e Lauder moves forward, it would be the largest acquisition for the company, according to the <em>WSJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Est\u00e9e Lauder Companies currently owns its namesake beauty brand, along with a slew of other lines, such as Clinique, Frederic Malle, GlamGlow, Jo Malone, La Mer, Le Labo, M.A.C. and more.<\/p>\n<p>After working as creative director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, Tom Ford opened his eponymous label in 2006, starting out with cosmetics and menswear before diving back into womenswear again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34184\" style=\"width: 4401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-34184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/09\/header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4401\" height=\"3521\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US fashion designer Tom Ford arrives for the 2019 CFDA fashion awards (Photo credit: ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tom Ford is set to close out New York Fashion Week this year with a show scheduled on September 14. It comes after the brand canceled its Fall 2022 show in January due to Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles and in Italy, where clothes are designed and created, respectively. Ford told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/tom-ford-cancels-fall-2022-new-york-fashion-week-runway-show?utm_source=VOGUE_REG_GATE\"class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/tom-ford-cancels-fall-2022-new-york-fashion-week-runway-show?utm_source=VOGUE_REG_GATE\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/tom-ford-cancels-fall-2022-new-york-fashion-week-runway-show?utm_source=VOGUE_REG_GATE\" aria-label=\"Vogue\" target=\"_blank\"><em data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/tom-ford-cancels-fall-2022-new-york-fashion-week-runway-show?utm_source=VOGUE_REG_GATE\">Vogue<\/em><\/a> the cases resulted in the collection being incomplete in time for the show.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/estee-lauder-in-talks-to-buy-luxury-brand-tom-ford-11659367933\" target=\"_blank\"><em>WSJ<\/em><\/a>, the beauty conglomerate is interested in Tom Ford&#8217;s beauty business and may license apparel. At the moment, Est\u00e9e Lauder Companies already licenses Tom Ford cosmetics and fragrances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33012,"featured_media":61672,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[17,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Est\u00e9e Lauder Reportedly in Talks to Buy Tom Ford<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Everything we know about the potential deal of conglomerate Est\u00e9e Lauder buying fashion and beauty brand, Tom Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/estee-lauder-tom-ford\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Est\u00e9e Lauder Reportedly in 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