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" I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. "
Tom Ford
Hate
Forget
Hair
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" I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States. "
Tom Ford
Drive
London
Traffic
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Lunch
Design
Hate
" I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more. "
Tom Ford
More
People
Plastic Surgery
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Creating
Used
Fashion
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Quality
Women
Life
" I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. "
Tom Ford
Introverted
Shy
Emotional
" The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go. "
Tom Ford
Mirror
Eyes
Man
" I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me. "
Tom Ford
Proud
Love
Money
" 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. "
Tom Ford
City
Never
Man
" What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe. "
Tom Ford
Wardrobe
Use
Zero
" Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. "
Tom Ford
Him
Copy
Take
" I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it. "
Tom Ford
Going
People
Just Do It
" Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. "
Tom Ford
Known
Beauty
Certain
" If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative. "
Tom Ford
Water
Hot
Lie
" Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual. "
Tom Ford
Who
Everyone
Knows
" I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes. "
Tom Ford
Want
Clothes
Beautiful
" I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them. "
Tom Ford
Reach
Clothes
Time
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Ego
Dress
I Am
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Think
Always
Beauty
" On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe. "
Tom Ford
Dog
Want
Live
" From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. "
Tom Ford
Stuff
Time
Born
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Culture
American
America
" The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos. "
Tom Ford
Might
Only
Place
" 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. "
Tom Ford
I Am
Beautiful
Thinking
" Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever. "
Tom Ford
Things
Ever
Silliest
" College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. "
Tom Ford
Political
Activity
College
" It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it. "
Tom Ford
Enjoy
You
Wonderful
" Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. "
Tom Ford
Students
Great
Changes
" 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. "
Tom Ford
Job
Alone
Hate
" If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment. "
Tom Ford
Me
Environment
Liberal