Revenge must taste super-sweet for Tom

HOW delicious is revenge eaten icy cold. Tom Ford must be feasting big time as his eponymous company has just been bought by Estée Lauder for a very tasty $2.8bn.

The price tag alone would be immensely satisfing but one of the reasons for that massive sum was for Lauder to keep the company out of the hands of French fashion conglomerate Kering.

Ford, pictured left with actress Amy Adams, and his business partner Domenico de Sole had a dramatic falling out with Kering in 2004 when the group took control of Gucci and YSL, which the pair were overseeing. Overnight, they were tossed out on to the streets of the international fashion industry where they had been huge stars.

Since then, Ford has launched his successful beauty and eye-wear range along with his clothing business which is now making him even wealthier. Eighteen years after parting ways from Kering, he must be feeling pretty smug.