I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
TOM FORDI’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
TOM FORDI find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
TOM FORDI 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.
TOM FORDWhat 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.
TOM FORDI understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
TOM FORDOn the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
TOM FORDIf I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
TOM FORDIn my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
TOM FORDI am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
TOM FORDI 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 FORDFrance? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
TOM FORDPerfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
TOM FORDThe Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
TOM FORDYes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
TOM FORDI’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
TOM FORDStyle is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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