Fashion designer Tom Ford made a surprising acknowledgment Saturday saying that the election of President Donald Trump made him want to return to his native America.

He told Women's Wear Daily that he had recently purchased a $38m home in Los Angeles and that he, his husband, and their son will soon take up residence there after relocating from London.

When asked about Trump's election, Ford said that 'it made me feel more nationalistic.'

'Oddly, it made me want to come back even more,' he said.

'We have a tremendous number of people in this country who feel disenfranchised and clearly we are not relating to or speaking to them. I am at my core American, and it made me want to come back. It didn't make me want to run away.'

The election of President Donald Trump (left) has made fashion designer Tom Ford (right) more eager to return to the United States, the designer said

Ford said that he felt a sense of responsibility in trying to help bridge the cultural and political partition that was laid so bare during the election.

Ford caused a stir last year when he said that he would not design dresses for First Lady Melania Trump (seen above)

'I think when you sense that there is a divide in your country and that there are people who perhaps you're not relating to, and that those of us who are fortunate enough to live in a world of very liberal human rights and privilege, it's a wake-up call that we're not addressing a big part of the country that does feel disenfranchised.'

'It made me feel more nationalistic, if anything,' Ford said of the election and its aftermath.

'The whole country is not like New York and LA and the world that I am used to living in.'

Ford, 55, has spent years living in London.

His comments about Trump are surprising given that he was recently ensnared in a controversy involving his brand.

Earlier this year, The Wynn Las Vegas removed all Tom Ford beauty products and eyewear from the resort after comments the designer made about Melania Trump.

Ford, 55, said during an appearance on The View in November that he would not be dressing Melania Trump while she was in the White House because his clothes are 'too expensive' for a first lady to wear, noting that in that position she would have to 'relate to everybody.'

Observers noted, however, that Ford did create a gown especially for former first lady Michelle Obama when she and her husband, then-President Barack Obama, were invited to dinner at Buckingham Palace.

Trump responded by telling Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends that Melania never asked Ford to dress her.

'Never asked Tom Ford, doesn't like Tom Ford, doesn't like his designs,' said Trump.

He then went on to say: 'Tom Ford is an example. "I will not dress the First Lady." He was never asked to dress - and Steve Wynn just called me and he said he thought it was so terrible what Tom Ford said, that he threw his clothing out of his Las Vegas hotel.'

That was later confirmed by a spokesperson for Wynn Las Vegas, who told DailyMail.com in statement: 'Wynn Las Vegas confirms it removed the Tom Ford line of cosmetics and sunglasses from the resort this past weekend.'