The new designer at the storied house made his debut on Wednesday night during Paris Fashion Week—with plenty of sly references to the brand's founder.

The house of Ford is all about vanity,” said Ackermann after his hormonal show, which mused on American Psycho and mornings after.

One evening in late January, Haider Ackermann, the new designer at Tom Ford, was tucked into a velvet banquette at La Reserve, the discreet, tryst-worthy hotel not far from the Élysée Palace in Paris. He was doing his best impression of Tom Ford, the man.