A tribute to TOM FORD
- “I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing — put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs — How else are you going to sell perfume to heterosexual men?”
- “When I shaved G for Gucci into the model’s pubic hair it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek statement about branding — we had Gucci emblazoned on everything in those days — so I said why not the pubic hair too. It wasn’t just about sex.” Tongue in… cheek?
- “One of the most important things is to figure out what your look is. Cary Grant never turned up in a pink jacket and hot pants.”
- “Thing is, people look much better naked. They’re all the same colour and they can’t screw up. You see someone at the gym and they look great. Then they put on their clothes.” …A pink jacket and hot pants?
- “My goal is not to have old age. I want to live, and then die — I want to be as attractive as I can be at 95 — not for vanity’s sake but because it would be so great to be able to get in and out of the car at that age.” Like YSL (below).
- “Ties give me a headache. My chest is still good, it’s the last thing to go on a man, like a woman’s legs — so I say feature the things that work.”
- “I was quoted as saying I like the smell of a man’s sweat but it was taken out of context — the fact is I like the smell of life — of earth and dust and sweat and horses.”
- “People say I’m always sex sex sex but it’s not actually all.” There are horses too.
- “I couldn’t dress Barack Obama as he has to dress in American-made clothes — and as the President of America maybe $5,000 suits aren’t the thing?”
- “If they did hybrid Bentleys I’d be the first to get one.” Sexy.
- “Unfortunately, Richard hardly ever has anything nice to say about my work. It’s my mother all over again. In psychoanalytic terms, it’s called the horrible familiar.” Tom about his boyfriend Richard Buckley.
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