When I am on my deathbed, I don’t think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.

— Tom Ford

Tom Ford Quotes

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

— Tom Ford

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

— Tom Ford

I’m actually very introverted. I’m very shy. I’m very emotional.

— Tom Ford

I don’t want to find myself designing for the press.

— Tom Ford

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don’t let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

— Tom Ford

It’s not a feminizing product; it’s designed to make your skin look better.

— Tom Ford

There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman’s whole look.

— Tom Ford

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

— Tom Ford

Fashion creates a bit of a dream.

— Tom Ford

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

— Tom Ford

Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I’m really comfortable in one.

— Tom Ford

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

— Tom Ford

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

— Tom Ford

Fun

I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.

— Tom Ford

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It’s the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

— Tom Ford

A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.

— Tom Ford

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

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’

— Tom Ford

I’m a very serious person.

— Tom Ford

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

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