Tom Ford Quotes About Fashion
-
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
→ -
In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
→ -
I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!
→ -
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 think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
→ -
Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.
→ -
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.
→ -
I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.
→ -
My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
→ -
I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.
→ -
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.
→ -
This is something I realized after stepping away from women's fashion for the last five years. When you are inside, it is such a tiny group of people who think that this is the most important thing in the world. But when you get a little bit of distance, someone will say to you something like, "Don't you think that shoe is blah?" And I will be like, "What shoe? I don't know what you're talking about." It is very, very inside.
→ -
I realized that the way I approached architecture was with a somewhat fashion brain. That didn't get me very good marks in school, because everyone thought fashion was lightweight. In architecture they say, "Well, why is the door pink? Where does it go? What does the pink mean? What does it symbolize? All the other doors are beige, why is that one pink?" I was like, "Well, it's pink because it's pretty."
→ -
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?
→
Related Authors
-
Christian Louboutin Designer -
Jake Gyllenhaal Actor -
Karl Lagerfeld Fashion designer -
Tory Burch Fashion designer -
Amy Adams Actress -
Yves Saint Laurent Fashion designer -
Marc Jacobs Fashion designer -
Colin Firth Film actor -
Giorgio Armani Fashion designer -
John Galliano Fashion designer -
Frida Giannini Designer -
Alexander Wang Fashion designer -
Aaron Taylor-Johnson Actor -
Coco Chanel Fashion designer -
Ralph Lauren Fashion designer -
Roberto Cavalli Fashion designer -
Michael Kors Fashion designer -
Alexander McQueen Fashion designer -
Thom Browne Fashion designer -
Valentino Garavani Fashion designer