I read an article a wee while back. After Tom Ford retired from the Gucci group, for the first time in a decade he has to buy clothes. He went to Savile Row and settle with Anderson and Sheppard, like all tailors at the Row they have their own house cut and TF found it very frustrating to get things made to his liking (e.g having wide lapels) of which A&D said no. This frustration actually was one of his driver to start a men's line. From what I read his Windsor cut is a "hybrid" of English and Italian of which it shows when there are shoulder padding used (not as heavy compared to normal English tailors like Gieves and Hawkes where they are more uniform and military) but enough to drape where it carries on with a soft rope shoulders and falls to the arms.
You were spot on with the Italian part where, but the waist was nipped it at the naval, not slightly higher like Richard James or Ozwald Boateng where like you said to elongate the wearers legs. I tried on Richard James before and it doesn't suit me, I'm not tall (5ft 10ish) but I work out 5 days a week where I have a triangle torso his slightly high button trick makes my body look weird, the proportion is like wearing a slightly longer Thom Browne suit.
TF instead had choose to elgonate the wearers legs by having high waisted trousers, I think is much more formal and also gives him the opportunity to have a higher seat of the trousers with a nice split back seam.
Haha, I own 4 TF Velvet jackets, I tend to wear them with a white V neck or shirt with semi slim blue or black raw denim jeans (Dior Homme) or light grey flannel TF trousers that came with my 3 piece.
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