Designer Tom Ford secretly marries partner Richard Buckley

Los Angeles: Fashion designer Tom Ford has tied the knot with Richard Buckley, who has been his partner for 27 years.The 52-year-old designer raises a one-year-old son Alexander with the journalist, reported E!Online.[caption id="attachment_1472847" align="alignleft" width="380"] Reuters[/caption]"I lost so many friends in college — I would say more than half of my closest friends. Richard, my partner of 27 years, had also gone through something also quite tough in his life. We are now married, which is nice," Ford said.The couple met at a fashion show in the 1980s. Ford had earlier said that the pair had developed a strong connection within days of dating."I went to a fashion show and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future," Ford had said at the time.PTI