Tom Ford Quotes

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?

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.

What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

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

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

I 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.

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'

Every season, really, has their own chemistry.

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.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

I think that they haven't been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

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.'

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

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.

I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

In 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.

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.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

I'm a very serious person.

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.

I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online.

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it.

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

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

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.

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They're meditative. I have three a day.

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

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.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

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.

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

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.

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

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.

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

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.