Richard Buckley

Richard Buckley, fashion designer Tom Ford's husband and partner of over three decades, has died. He was 72. According to a statement from Ford's representatives, Buckley, a renowned fashion editor and journalist, "died of natural causes after a long illness" on Sunday night. Ford met Buckley in 1986 at a fashion show, and the pair eventually wed in 2014. Buckley enjoyed a career in fashion journalism that began at New York Magazine in 1979. He went on to publications that included Women's Wear Daily and Vanity Fair. He also became the European editor of Mirabella magazine, contributing editor at Italian Vogue, and later the editor-in-chief of Vogue Hommes International. Buckley and Ford most recently lived in London, New York and Santa Fe. The pair are parents to son Alexander John Buckley Ford, 8.