Latest Tom Ford Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that something that people in general forget to do - and it's true, not everyone has the financial means to do this - whatever clothes you buy if you really want them to fit well, you need to have them altered or tailored. And whether you're doing that yourself, whether you're taking it to your drycleaner that has a tailor, you need to alter and tailor everything, whether it's expensive, whether it's, you know, whether it's inexpensive. If you want it to really fit your body, even the best clothes have to be tailored.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

• I 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 Ford

  Powerful, Eye, Thinking

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

• If I'm having a bad day I put on the very best thing I have. I polish my shoes, I shine everything up, because that helps me get though the day. It helps me, you know, it's in a sense armor. It says, okay, I'm a mess inside but you know what, on the outside I'm going to be pulled together, everything is okay.

  Tom Ford

  Bad Day, Shining, Together

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

• We are actually starting to manipulate our bodies, because we can, into a shape. We are becoming our own art. But what happens for me is that it desexualizes everything. You know, you start to look more and more polished, more and more lacquered and you look like a beautiful car. Does anyone want to sleep with you? Does anyone want to touch you? Does anyone want to kiss you? Maybe not, because you're too scary.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Art, Sleep

• I don't understand all these breasts right now, and they don't look like breasts. They look like someone's taken a grapefruit half and inserted it under your skin. I mean it's - it doesn't even bear any resemblance to what a natural breast looks like. But we're starting to think that this is what women should like. And young girls are looking at these breasts and thinking, oh, I need to go have my breasts done because they've lost touch with what a real breast actually looks like. I find it fascinating, I find it disturbing.

  Tom Ford

  Girl, Real, Taken

  "Tom Ford: From High Fashion To Film In 'Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 9, 2010.

• I think that right now we're in a very hard moment and off-putting. I mean, look at shoes today - women's shoes. They couldn't possibly get any higher and meaner and sharper. But then again, you go and watch most films today, they're violent and we're living in a world that is, at the moment, quite hard.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, Thinking, World

  "Tom Ford: From High Fashion To Film In 'Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 9, 2010.

• If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where things are, you know, we're in a recession, fashion becomes quiet. So, in terms of popular culture, fashion and especially women's fashion is incredibly interesting, aside from satisfying just a particular need to create and arrange things in a way that one sees as beautiful. And so, in a certain way, it's fulfilling. In another way, it's very fleeting because it doesn't last very long. You know, a beautiful moment in fashion goes away very quickly.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Long

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

• Right now everything is pumped up. Cars look like someone took an air pump and pumped them up. They look engorged. Lips pumped up, breasts pumped up, everything is pumped up. And it's also kind of off-putting. It's sexual but in such a hard way that it's, for me, not sexual at all. Whereas the 1970s, breasts were smaller. People were not wearing bras. Farrah Fawcett's sexuality and sensuality was a very touchable sexuality. She was kissable. She was friendly.

  Tom Ford

  People, Car, Friendly

• We do objectify women in our culture. We're starting to objectify men a little bit more. And there is nothing wrong with that. Objectify maybe is the wrong word. Celebrate their bodies and use beautiful men, beautiful women as a tool to get your attention and to sell things. But no-one - we're very, very uncomfortable in our culture with looking at a naked man. You know, naked women are everywhere, selling everything. And again, this is quite sexist. But naked men make us nervous.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Men, Culture

• Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Culture

• In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Right Time, Wrong Time

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

• I think there's nothing more painful for anyone than unrequited love. If you've ever had that kind of physical access to someone and then, all of a sudden, that is denied, and yet you're still in love with that person, it's very, very, very painful to be around that person in a certain way.

  Tom Ford

  Unrequited Love, Thinking, Kind

• A beautiful woman in our culture, and I would like to say, you know, this was different in 1962, but it still exists today - I know a lot of these women -treats different in a different way; meaning that if you're a beautiful woman, you're incredibly powerful within our culture. The world operates differently for you. Then, at a moment in time, and it has nothing to do with you, it's like the carpet is just ripped out from under you, and the way that you've operated in the world no longer works.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Powerful, Culture

  "Tom Ford: From Fashion To Film With 'A Single Man'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 14, 2009.

• When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

  Tom Ford

  Reading, Listening, Film

• I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things. I think our culture likes to be mean. I don't just find this in fashion - I find it in the news. More and more, it is about ripping people apart.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Clever, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• This is going to sound crazy, but the first thing I do when I get home is take off all my clothes - at home, just around the house. I take everything off. I can't stand clothes! I take everything off - my shoes, my socks, my watch, shirt, everything. I am completely naked.

  Tom Ford

  Crazy, Home, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like to relax and lie in the water. It is the way I calm myself down. But every time I walk past my bathroom, I go in and I put on some perfume. I use different perfumes for different moods. If I feel that I need to calm down, I put on certain fragrances that are more sensual. If I feel that I need to energize, I put on something else. Fragrance for me is so important.

  Tom Ford

  Lying, Past, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Tom Ford

  Giving Up, People, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I interview these people all the time who come to my office and say, "I want to be a fashion designer." I tell them where they should start, and they say, "I don't want to do that. I don't want to get anyone coffee." Don't they know it is great to get people coffee?

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Coffee, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so it should be exactly the way you want it, exactly the way you would have chosen it. People call me a control freak, and I say, "Well, my name is on the shoe." It means the heel needs to be the way I want it and not the way somebody else wants it, and the toe needs to be exactly the way I want it, and the fabric and the material have to be exactly the way I want it. It is not a democracy - it is a dictatorship.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, People, Democracy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.

  Tom Ford

  Loneliness, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am great at delegating when someone is doing great work. The problem - and this sounds terrible - is that there are very few people who are strong enough for you to be able to delegate to.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, People, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• This is something I realized after stepping away from women's fashion for the last five years. When you are inside, it is such a tiny group of people who think that this is the most important thing in the world. But when you get a little bit of distance, someone will say to you something like, "Don't you think that shoe is blah?" And I will be like, "What shoe? I don't know what you're talking about." It is very, very inside.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Distance, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.

  Tom Ford

  Book, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org