FORD: Are you still in touch with those friends?
GHESQUIÈRE: Some of them, yes. Not all of them, but a few, absolutely.
FORD: It is hard when you go home because usually everyone else looks like hell, and you still look good. [laughs] You don’t have much in common with people anymore.
GHESQUIÈRE: Yeah, it’s hard to keep a normal relationship with them—they are very nice, and they kind of understand what my life is about—
FORD: It is a very different world, though.
GHESQUIÈRE: Yeah, it is. And sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place.
I’m sure you are still very busy, but now you are dedicated to your name and directing. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes.
FORD: I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away. That has happened now. I have worked so hard on my film and my business that I need to take the next six months and spend time with Richard [Buckley, Ford’s partner] and friends. Most of them have just sort of forgotten about me, because I have not been there for them. If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.
GHESQUIÈRE: Yeah.
-- exerpt from Interview Magazine
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