Tom Ford Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

• I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today.

  Tom Ford

  Spiritual, Girlfriend, Shoes

• I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Love Is, Voice

• 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

  Country, Thinking, America

• If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.

  Tom Ford

  America, Appreciate, Style

  "Next. Next. What's Next?". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. April 7, 1996.

• 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

  Beautiful, Culture, World

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

• I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. 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

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Lucky

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

• 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

• I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

  Tom Ford

  Voice, Appreciate, Tough Times

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

• 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.

• 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

• I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

  Tom Ford

  Horse, Cities, Space

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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