Tom Ford famous quotes

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
-- Tom Ford

#Beach #Men #Cities

If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking...
-- Tom Ford

#Drinking #Needs #London

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Real #Real Life

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Insecure #Thinking

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
-- Tom Ford

#Reality #Persons

When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.
-- Tom Ford

#Writing #Character #Acting

When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
-- Tom Ford

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
-- Tom Ford

#Country #New York #Kids

Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
-- Tom Ford

#Hate #Silence #Today

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
-- Tom Ford

#Believe #Mean #Want

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
-- Tom Ford

#People #Dinner #Want

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.
-- Tom Ford

#Organized

I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.
-- Tom Ford

#Cheating #Tired #Wrinkles

In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.
-- Tom Ford

#Spiritual #Fashion #Too Much

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #President #Actors

I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
-- Tom Ford

#Beautiful #Spiritual #Lucky

It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
-- Tom Ford

#Sexy #High Heels #Pairs

Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.
-- Tom Ford

#Girl #Fashion #Culture

There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition
-- Tom Ford

#Intuition #Answers

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
-- Tom Ford

#Want #Retiring

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
-- Tom Ford

#New Year #Live Life #Believe

I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.
-- Tom Ford

#Voice #Appreciate #Tough Times

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.
-- Tom Ford

#Summer #Sunset #Light

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
-- Tom Ford

#Perfection #Personality #Strive

It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.
-- Tom Ford

#Thinking #Age #Want

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
-- Tom Ford

#Dog #Successful #Paris

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.
-- Tom Ford

#Art #Thinking #Important

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.
-- Tom Ford

#Beautiful #Clothes #Want

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Team #Thinking

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
-- Tom Ford

#Mean #Men #Clothes

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
-- Tom Ford

#Parent #Environmental #Open Minded

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
-- Tom Ford

#Inspirational #America #Together

People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Real #Tired

Everyday is one less day.
-- Tom Ford

#Everyday

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
-- Tom Ford

#Thinking #Perfection #Sometimes

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
-- Tom Ford

#Happy Life #People #World

Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
-- Tom Ford

#Impact #Body #Way

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Goes On #Behind The Scenes

I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
-- Tom Ford

#Beautiful #Men #Clothes

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.
-- Tom Ford

#Beautiful #Fashion #Struggle

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
-- Tom Ford

#Gentleman #World #Passionate

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Art #Makeup

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
-- Tom Ford

#Stupid #Fabulous

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Artist #Creating

Choose your team carefully. So much of your success is due to the people who you surround yourself with. Your friends, your family, and the people that you work with -- they all play an important role in inspiring you and supporting you and giving you stability. These are the people in your life who will be honest with you.
-- Tom Ford

#Team #Play #Giving

Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Style #Different

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.
-- Tom Ford

#Home #Style #Fruit

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.
-- Tom Ford

#Views #Good Man #Trying

Dressing well is a form of good manners.
-- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Good Man #Dressing Well

Fashion creates a bit of a dream
-- Tom Ford

#Dream #Fashion

In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
-- Tom Ford

#Dna #Trying #Pieces

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
-- Tom Ford

You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
-- Tom Ford

#Able #Made #Worthwhile

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.
-- Tom Ford

#Thinking #Eras #Standards

It's not a feminizing product; it's designed to make your skin look better.
-- Tom Ford

#Skins #Looks

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.
-- Tom Ford

#Homosexual