Tom Ford #USVogue interview
A Man For All Seasons: Inside the World of Tom Ford.
In the September issue of US Vogue Tom Ford is interviewed as he takes over the chairman role at the CFDA . Love him, such an original thinker!
“Beauty gives me great joy, but it also gives me great sadness. When I see the rose, and I smell the rose, all I can think of is that the rose is going to wither and be dead. But that’s one of the things that endows it with its beauty. If it were permanent, you wouldn’t even notice it.”
“I sort of operate at a slightly lower mood. I always felt that if you’re happy, you’re just stupid. I still think happiness doesn’t exist and that if we all didn’t expect it to exist, we would be a lot happier. Drinking and drugs fueled many of my most creative moments, and I had an incredible fear that once I was sober I would not be able to create”
“Now my addiction is work, but it brings me enormous pleasure. And it keeps my mind from the fact that we are this tiny speck of a planet in the middle of an infinite number of other planets, and everything we have, what does any of it mean? Why do we struggle, why do we suffer? If I start down that road, it’s like, guess what? I think I’ll do something really important and choose the new lipstick colors for 2021.”
“I love people’s houses that are incredibly colorful and patterned,” he says. “But I can’t think in them. Color distracts me.”
“When, in 1994, I sent that hypersexualized Amber Valletta down the runway, it was very new because of AIDS. It was a reintroduction of the hedonism of the ’70s, of that sort of louche, highly sexualized, alcoholically lubricated, touchable, kissable, slip-your-hand-into-the-blouse thing that no one had seen on the runway in a long time. There had been a complete shutdown of sexuality after having sex in an era when you could die from it.”
“Younger women don’t wear clothes anymore. When I was young, they had day, they had afternoon, they had cocktail, they had evening. Now, whether they’re a New York socialite or a movie star, if they have to go to lunch, they drop the kids off in leggings, then they put on a pair of heels, maybe a jacket. But they want a fucking amazing evening dress, and I have no problem selling $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 evening dresses”
“I wouldn’t shave a G into somebody’s pubic hair anymore. Political correctness has become fashion correctness, and you almost can’t say a thing about anything. But the bottom line is that I like the way women’s bodies look, I like the way men’s bodies look. My own persona remains sex, even if I’ve moved on to a different stage in my reality. The new me is 58 years old, with a six-year-old kid upstairs, a 70-year-old husband. Very different. But we’re human. Sex is a side effect of affection.”
Read the interview here at Vogue.
