Tom Ford isn’t an ordinary man. He knows it, and everybody knows it. So, it’s wrong to expect him saying he is just like any guy you meet when you go out. He admits he’s not a celebrity, not even a film star but he has that very problem every famous person has – he can’t walk a street without being stopped by people and asked for an autograph or a picture together. In a new interview marking his 50th birthday Tom Ford talks about lots of things his fans might be interested in. He says he hopes he doesn’t die tomorrow, shares on his vision of an ‘ideal’ woman, tells that he hates seeing ladies fully dressed in his clothing (especially if the outfit is totally the same as the one he sent one of his models down the runway in.), etc. Read and know new facts about the fashion designer:
Tom Ford on turning 50: “I hope that I don’t die tomorrow’. I hope that I get to be a little bit wiser and smarter, and keep learning things, and I’m looking forward to my old age in Santa Fe in my nineties as a sculptor – maybe wearing a lot of dark eye makeup like Louise Nevelson. I don’t know. I might have a Johnny Depp/Santa Fe/Louise Nevelson-sculptor moment in my nineties.”
Tom Ford on the ‘ideal’ woman: “The Tom Ford Woman for me is somebody who has her own sense of style. You change and swing. You have different moods. It’s not necessarily related to what you’re reading about in fashion magazines… she’s a woman who knows herself well, and who wears her clothes and her clothes don’t wear her.”
Tom Ford on women and styling: “Women love to shop, so they need to be able to find new things. So yes, I’m doing four collections for women, each year… But I don’t enjoy seeing a woman dressed in my clothes from head to toe exactly the way I showed it on the runway. I love when I see somebody who looks amazing and they happen to be wearing one of my jackets and a pair of shoes, they’re mixing things, and they know who they are.”
Tom Ford on being famous: “I always think, I’m not a celebrity, I’m not a film star, I can walk around on the streets, and then, when I do, I realize I really can’t. If I walk very fast and I don’t stop, maybe. If I linger, somebody comes up to me. They usually ask if they can take their picture with me, like I’m a building. It’s very strange.”
Tom Ford on his personal style: “I have a kind of uniform for London, a uniform for Santa Fe, a uniform when I’m on somebody’s boat, a uniform for the beach. I know who I am. I know what colors work well on me. I know what colors don’t work well on me. I know when I don’t feel well in something.”
Tom Ford on the new Beauty range: “Tom Ford Beauty is a collection I’m very proud of and very serious about. I’ve always been serious about makeup and cosmetics going back to when I was fourteen, and my mother had to take me to the emergency room because I was lying in the bathtub with cucumber slices on my eyes. She had to explain to the guys in the emergency room why her fourteen-year-old son had a giant infection in his eyes.”
Tom Ford on being a workaholic: “With computer and email, I think we all work twenty-four hours a day. I miss the days when you left your office and your assistant and you couldn’t work any more until Monday. But fashion is like that, and people don’t realize it. They think because fashion changes every season that it’s a business that changes all the time. And while the product does change, your schedule does not change. Year after year after year, you have to try to find ways to reinvent and make it fun.”
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