Tom Ford Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

  Tom Ford

  Life, Change, Fashion

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

• Dressing well is a form of good manners.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Monday Morning

• But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Struggle

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

• Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Goes On, Behind The Scenes

• 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

  Fashion, Artist, Creating

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

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Style, Different

• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, President, Actors

  Interview with Peter Halley, www.indexmagazine.com. 2004.

• People 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 Ford

  Fashion, Real, Tired

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

• 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

  Girl, Fashion, Mold

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

• She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Perfect, Needs

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

• 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

  Fashion, Art, Makeup

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

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, People, Groups

• I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Believe, Clothes

• London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought about their outfits. They've picked out the bag, put on proper shoes. ... Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Cities, Shoes

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

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Film Directing, Design

• 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

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

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Men, London

• 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

  Fashion, Team, Thinking

  Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com. December 11, 2009.

• I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Fighting, Thinking

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

• 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.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Eye, Blue

  "Tom Ford: fashion's slickest control freak" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2013.

• 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.

• Fashion creates a bit of a dream

  Tom Ford

  Dream, Fashion, Bits

• I realized that the way I approached architecture was with a somewhat fashion brain. That didn't get me very good marks in school, because everyone thought fashion was lightweight. In architecture they say, "Well, why is the door pink? Where does it go? What does the pink mean? What does it symbolize? All the other doors are beige, why is that one pink?" I was like, "Well, it's pink because it's pretty."

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, School, Mean

• 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

  Beautiful, Fashion, Elements

  "Tom Ford: a single man and his address book" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2010.

• 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

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