Tommy Hilfiger famous quotes

American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Expression #Diversity #Style

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Dream #Fashion #Stars

I think preppy stands for optimism, confidence, energy and authenticity.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Thinking #Optimism #Energy

New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Fashion #New York #Years

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Successful #Thinking #Complacent

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Passion #Design #Inspired

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Dream #Hard Work #Passion

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Fashion #Thinking #Design

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Clothes #Creative #Designer

If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Rocks #Rock N Roll #Designer

Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Looks #Next #Needs

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Destiny #Able

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Kind #Preppy #Lifestyle

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Brother #Eight #Wake Up

We like to believe our fashion is growing.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Fashion #Believe #Growing

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Moving #Rap #Kids

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#People #Want #Looks

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Different #Beast #Couture

If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year?
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Years #Style #Proud

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Mother #Forgiving #Taught

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Years #Giving #Lasts

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Real #Clothes #Perfect

The preppy look has gone global- every corner of the world interprets it in a different way.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Looks #Gone #World

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Gone #Classic #Preppy

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Clothes #Design #Lifestyle

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Reading #Character #Chinese

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Thinking #People #Way

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#New York #Interesting #Stories

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Country #War #Dark

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Stupid #School #Dumb

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Wells #Competitors

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
-- Tommy Hilfiger

#Mother #Race #Age