Tom Ford Quotes

“I believe in a parallel universe of image and fantasy that isn't so much fantasy as it is forever sealed in films and things that have entertained us for years. This parallel universe has influenced me perhaps even more than the real world or the physical world. Because when I think of certain things, like a beautiful woman, its most likely someone I saw on film… these are things I've been taking from film or television and applying it to real life.”

Tom Ford

Vogue Voices: Tom Ford, Vogue, January 10, 2014, April 18, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTvfYC71d8,

“Everyday is one less day.”

Tom Ford

“From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.”

Tom Ford

“I guess I'm hyper-self-conscious about people thinking that I'm egotistical, but there's a difference between being egotistical and knowing your value as a product and an actor. I know my value as a product, and I've divorced myself as a human from myself as a product.”

Tom Ford

Tom Ford Biography, Biography.com, A&E Television Networks, April 18, 2016 http://www.biography.com/people/tom-ford-5936,

“You can only make the slit so much higher, the stiletto so much taller.”

Tom Ford

Tom Ford Visits Oxford, Pang, Jeanine Celeste, March 2005, fashionlines.com, March 12, 2016 http://www.fashionlines.com/2005/mar/fashionTrendsFord.php,

“… style without substance is nothing, the substance in the story was the most important thing. Of course, there is a layer of style. If I were a director working in a different era, I would have had to be at MGM. I don't think I'd probably know how to make anything but enhanced reality, because that's what comes naturally to me.”

Tom Ford

A singular man, Shapiro, Gregg, December 24, 2009, The Bay Area Reporter, April 18, 2016 http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=film&article=704,