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Tom Ford Biography

Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford (born August 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He launched his eponymous luxury brand in 2006, having previously served as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. Ford also directed the Academy Award-nominated films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016).

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Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.

Believe, Decision, Everything, Hate, Usually, Yes

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.

Beautiful, Nice, Shoes, Thinking

One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

Team, Successful, Odds, Barry, Favorite

There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition

Answers, Intuition, Right, Wrong Answers

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.

Changes, Design, Fashion, Forever, Though, Time

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.

Bullied, Carried, Home, School, Thinking, Thought

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

Fun, Ifs

I interview these people all the time who come to my office and say, "I want to be a fashion designer. " I tell them where they should start, and they say, "I don't want to do that. I don't want to get anyone coffee. " Don't they know it is great to get people coffee?

Coffee, Come, Fashion, Interview, People, Say

What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.

Eye, Skins, Wardrobe, Works, Zero

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.

Fashion, Believe, Clothes, Political, Sociological

You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.

Done, Ears, Men, Move, Moving, Notice

The Gucci woman - you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman - she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.

Hot, Saint, Sex, Torture, Wax

I was the sensitive, shy kid that was teased a lot. I was very definitely bullied. I mean, from an early age, I dressed more like an adult, you know, jackets and very slim trousers and a raincoat. And I - even when I was 7, 8, 9-years-old, carried an attache case to school because I just hated the sloppiness of a book bag.

Bag, Book, Case, Kids, Mean

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

Different, Fashion, Speed, Things, Thinking

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.

Accessories, Like, Looks, Period, Shoes, Whole

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Parent, Environmental, Open Minded, Differently, Parents, Discouraged

I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have that voice, you don't have that outlet. I didn't appreciate that. I didn't understand how important that was to me. And all of a sudden, after investing all this time and energy, I had no identity. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know what I had to say. I didn't have a way to say it. It was very painful.

Appreciate, Investing, Tough, Tough Times, Voice

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.

Fashion, Mood, Real, Tired

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.

Big, Cities, Horse, Listening, Silence, Space

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

Baseball, Football, Say, Sports

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