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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• Film is an incredible way to express yourself and your vision, as is fashion, but you have to make sure [to] be confident and honest and true to yourself and say something that means something, because that is really the point of any art.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Art, Mean

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

• 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

  Fashion, Thinking, People

• Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Life Changing, Moving

• 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

• Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Feel Better, People

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

• I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Luxury, Quality

  "In V: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld's Self Portraits Whilst Wearing Tom Ford". Interview with Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, www.racked.com. December 23, 2010.

• I interview these people all the time who come to my office and say, "I want to be a fashion designer." I tell them where they should start, and they say, "I don't want to do that. I don't want to get anyone coffee." Don't they know it is great to get people coffee?

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Coffee, People

  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.

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