In the world of fashion journalism, few have made a career more peppered with successes than Richard Buckley.

Buckley was born in Binghamton, New York, but did not stay there long.

He died of natural causes after a prolonged illness" (viaVogue).

Richard Buckley posing on backdrop

Ford and Buckley met in an elevator, a meeting which Ford remembers clearly as love at first sight.

It was literally love at first sight."

That love at first sight led to an iconic partnering that would span nearly four decades (viaPeople).

Tom Ford and Richard Buckley posing

The couple shared an eight-year-old son named Jack.