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 FORDStyle is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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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.
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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