I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
TOM FORDEveryday is one less day.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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?
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Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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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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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.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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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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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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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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.
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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