360 Quotes by Tom Ford

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

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.

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.

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

If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it.

Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It’s not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need to move fashion forward when there’s a reason to move fashion forward.

I’m very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It’s one of the silliest things ever.

I’m a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

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.