You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world. Tom Ford More Quotes by Tom Ford More Quotes From Tom Ford I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever. Tom Ford judgmental dinner world Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual. Tom Ford sunset light summer Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut. Tom Ford cutting shows giving Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners. Tom Ford excellent kind 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. Tom Ford elements fashion beautiful 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. Tom Ford fashion eye blue I'm a very serious person. Tom Ford serious-person serious persons I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. Tom Ford artificial monogamy thinking Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. Tom Ford banking should bankers 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 girl trying men 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. Tom Ford horse space cities I do everything completely naked Tom Ford naked 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. Tom Ford design fashion forever 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. Tom Ford fashion two art Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. Tom Ford signatures kind directors Fashion creates a bit of a dream Tom Ford bits fashion dream It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you. Tom Ford clothes dream school For Fleur de Chine, I imagined the romantic and mysterious women from Asia's cinematic past-from the '30s femme fatale in a cheongsam and dark lipstick, to the'60s Hong Kong heroine of In the Mood for Love. I wanted to capture that fascinating, exquisite and slightly scandalous femininity. Tom Ford mysterious-woman dark past The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time. Tom Ford accessories shoes looks Yeah. Iʼve always felt this way. I mean weʼre born alone, we die alone. And while weʼre here we are absolutely, completely sealed in our own bodies. Really weird. Kinda freaks me out to think about it. We can only experience the outside world through our own slanted perception of it. Who knows what youʼre really like. I just see what I think youʼre like. Tom Ford perception mean thinking