Top 180 Tom Ford Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Every season, really, has their own chemistry.”

— Tom Ford

152. “In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I’d neglected it. In fashion, that’s really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.”

— Tom Ford

153. “I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.”

— Tom Ford

154. “I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.”

— Tom Ford

155. “I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body.”

— Tom Ford

156. “I swore that I wouldn’t be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.”

— Tom Ford

157. “When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.”

— Tom Ford

158. “As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.”

— Tom Ford

159. “I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.”

— Tom Ford

160. “If you’re at the Oscars, there’s not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes – they know the tricks.”

— Tom Ford

161. “I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.”

— Tom Ford

162. “I don’t do shows. I don’t have reviews. I’m not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.”

— Tom Ford

163. “Students in the ’60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.”

— Tom Ford

164. “This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I’m just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.”

— Tom Ford

165. “I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I’m quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn’t good at baseball and football.”

— Tom Ford

166. “It’s like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful – this is all going to sound horrible – but when you have so much wonderful, it isn’t wonderful because you don’t actually have time to enjoy it.”

— Tom Ford

167. “Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.”

— Tom Ford

168. “The dynamics of film directing and fashion design – in the ways that I’ve done it – were not dissimilar.”

— Tom Ford

169. “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 Ford

170. “There’s nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you’re playing football in the park.”

— Tom Ford

171. “Maybe it’s because I’m a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.”

— Tom Ford

172. “You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?”

— Tom Ford

173. “You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.”

— Tom Ford

174. “Tweeting? It’s one of the silliest things ever.”

— Tom Ford

175. “A lot of the things I did – it’s not going to sound anything but egotistical – if I’m lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don’t like that.”

— Tom Ford

176. “Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.”

— Tom Ford

177. “College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.”

— Tom Ford

178. “Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life.”

— Tom Ford

179. “Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that’s just innate.”

— Tom Ford

180. “It’s not a feminizing product; it’s designed to make your skin look better.”

— Tom Ford

181. “While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.”

— Tom Ford

182. “I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America – or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.”

— Tom Ford

183. “One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.”

— Tom Ford