360 Quotes by Tom Ford

I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials – that’s actually how I put myself through NYU and through college.

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.

A few times in my life I’ve had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

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

I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.

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.

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.

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.