Tom Ford quotes

Born
August 27, 1961, Austin, Texas, U.S.

Occupation
Fashion designer, director.

Tom Ford is an American fashion designer and director.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
– Tom Ford

I’m actually very introverted. I’m very shy. I’m very emotional.
– Tom Ford

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.
– Tom Ford

From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
– Tom Ford

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
– Tom Ford

There’s nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you’re playing football in the park.
– Tom Ford

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

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

I guess I’m just one of these people who, when I decide I’m going to do something, I just do it.
– Tom Ford

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
– Tom Ford

I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
– Tom Ford

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.
– Tom Ford

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

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

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

I think we’re very uptight in America. You have to remember that we’re descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things.
– Tom Ford

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.
– Tom Ford

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire… You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don’t make someone’s butt look great, they’re not going to buy them.
– Tom Ford

I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
– Tom Ford

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

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they’ve achieved… I think the moment you get to a place when you think ‘Oh I’m a fashion legend’ then that’s when you’re no longer competitive in your field.
– Tom Ford

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
– Tom Ford

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

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.
– Tom Ford

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.
– Tom Ford

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it’s something that comes naturally to us.
– Tom Ford

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.
– Tom Ford

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

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

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
– Tom Ford

I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
– Tom Ford