If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
TOM FORDIf my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
TOM FORDStyle is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
TOM FORDWhen you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
TOM FORDPeople 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 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 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 FORDShe needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
TOM FORDThere are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
TOM FORDI’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
TOM FORDIt’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
TOM FORDI know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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 FORDYou have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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’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 FORDYou 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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