Top 180 Tom Ford Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.”

— Tom Ford

52. “The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.”

— Tom Ford

53. “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

54. “I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.”

— Tom Ford

55. “It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.”

— Tom Ford

56. “I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.”

— Tom Ford

57. “We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, ‘Friday, Nov. 8. Three o’clock. Have a genius creative idea.’”

— Tom Ford

58. “I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.”

— Tom Ford

59. “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

60. “When I come home I actually take off all my clothes, and I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked.”

— Tom Ford

61. “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

62. “Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It’s the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.”

— Tom Ford

63. “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

64. “The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.”

— Tom Ford

65. “I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it’s something that comes naturally to us.”

— Tom Ford

66. “There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman’s whole look.”

— Tom Ford

67. “I haven’t had any plastic surgery – despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don’t think of that as plastic surgery any more.”

— Tom Ford

68. “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

69. “My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.”

— Tom Ford

70. “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

71. “I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I’ve learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?”

— Tom Ford

72. “I 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 Ford

73. “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

74. “If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.”

— Tom Ford

75. “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

76. “I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.”

— Tom Ford

77. “At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.”

— Tom Ford

78. “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.”

— Tom Ford

79. “Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.”

— Tom Ford

80. “I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.”

— Tom Ford

81. “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.”

— Tom Ford

82. “I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn’t understand why anyone else didn’t think so.”

— Tom Ford

83. “My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don’t like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.”

— Tom Ford

84. “I’m actually very introverted. I’m very shy. I’m very emotional.”

— Tom Ford

85. “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.”

— Tom Ford

86. “Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that’s at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.”

— Tom Ford

87. “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

88. “In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.”

— Tom Ford

89. “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

90. “Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I’m really comfortable in one.”

— Tom Ford

91. “Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.”

— Tom Ford

92. “Part of fashion is newness. It’s got to be a new combination of elements that’s shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn’t have any emotion.”

— Tom Ford

93. “A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it’s cut right up to your arm.”

— Tom Ford

94. “I’m not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent.”

— Tom Ford

95. “I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.”

— Tom Ford

96. “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

97. “I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.”

— Tom Ford

98. “Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It’s not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need to move fashion forward when there’s a reason to move fashion forward.”

— Tom Ford

99. “I don’t think fashion has to change every five minutes. I’d like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time – ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!”

— Tom Ford

100. “When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, ‘Don’t do it – call me first.’”

— Tom Ford