Richard Buckley (1948 – 2021) was an American fashion journalist and editor. Buckley wrote for '' Vogue Italia'' and ''New York'' magazine, and worked as an editor for '' Women's Wear Daily'', '' Vanity Fair'', and '' Vogue Hommes'', the latter of which he was editor-in-chief from 1999 to 2005. Buckley was born in

Binghamton, New York Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

, and was educated at the University of Maryland's Munich campus. He was the husband of designer Tom Ford; they had a son, born in 2012 via gestational surrogacy. Buckley died at his home in Los Angeles after an extended illness on September 19, 2021, at age 72.

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