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.Collection: Design
I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.Collection: Happiness
I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.Collection: Beauty
As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.Collection: Design
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.Collection: History
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.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Car
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.Collection: Design
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.Collection: Amazing
I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.Collection: Design
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.Collection: Design
There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.Collection: Design
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.
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
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.
I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.
I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it.
Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.
I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.
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 find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.
Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet.
I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
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.
I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.
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.
I'm a very serious person.
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.
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.
There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
L.A. is my American city.
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.
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.
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?
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.
Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.
I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.