5 QUOTES FROM TOM FORD DOCUMENTARY

5 favourite quotes from the documentary about the man who reinvigorated Gucci, made an Oscar-nominated  The Single Man and has 2 smooth fox terriers. 

ON LIVING UP TO EXPECTATIONS:  

"I have learned over the years, you should do some thing first and then talk about it. Not talk about it talk it up. Because then you talk things up to a level where you can't possibly live up to people's expectations."

ON FASHION: 

"Fashion for me is not just clothes. It can be a mirror of where we are culturally at a moment in time. Or an indicator of where we are going." 

ON STYLE: 

"Style for me is some thing completely different. You could be what we consider in our culture unattractive and have great style. You can have no money and have great style. You can have a lotta money and have great style. More often you have a lotta money and you have terrible style. And you just plaster yourself in what you think you're supposed to wearing. And you've lost yourself." 

ON SUCCESS: 

"90 percent of my success is my drive. There are a lot of designers who are more creative. But maybe they don't work as hard. Maybe they don't have my drive."

ON YOUR TIME: 

"I know one day I will be irrelevant. Because no matter how hard you try there is a cultural window, where is your moment and you are in that space, and you can cling to, cling to it and cling to it. But eventually, your window is gone, your time on earth is finished, you may as well leave."