For a man whose very name is associated with highest level of luxury, the way Tom Ford gets ready for the day is surprisingly low-key. He just starts way earlier than most people. At 4:30 a.m.

"I get up and make myself a gigantic iced coffee," the designer said in an interview with Mr Porter, which just began to stock his wares this week. "I then answer e-mails and work until about 6 a.m. Then I will head upstairs and have a second giant iced coffee and lay in the bathtub. I don't like warm drinks of any kind. I lay in my bathtub with a bendable straw in my coffee and no lights and only one candle lit. I love that time in the morning when no one else is awake, and I'm alone, and then I can slowly come to life."

As Ford once told Details, "Time and silence are the most luxurious things today." Maybe that should be amended to include a bendy straw.

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