Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I’ve come back, I’ve lost it, I’ve come back again. It’s really as good as your last collection.
The idea of losing someone that you love could throw you into a situation where you could not see your future and you really would be living in the past.
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.
I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn’t understand why anyone else didn’t think so.
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.
My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don’t like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.
I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.
Give me the control, don’t ever come on the set, and I’ll show it to you when it’s cut.
Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that’s at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.
You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.
I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.
Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you’re about, and everything I do is really about pride.
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.
We’ve become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we’ve come off a period in the ’70s and ’80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we’ve become obsessed with comfort. I actually don’t like that.
Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design – in the ways that I’ve done it – were not dissimilar.
I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
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.
I guess I’m just one of these people who, when I decide I’m going to do something, I just do it.