Tommy Hilfiger Quotes

The most important thing that I think we've done this season is to show navy and gray in a very new way. Most men understand navy and gray as a navy blazer and a gray flannel trouser, but today, we're taking that very traditional color palette and putting it in a more modern shape.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

I think the success of any brand reboot is to acknowledge the heritage but to embrace and interpret it in a way that makes it relevant and wearable to the modern consumer.

In fashion design, you can divide people into two groups. You have people who come with an aesthetic that is there forever, even if it evolves. Then you have people I call 'jumpers.' One season it can be this; the next season it's completely something else. I always knew I am more of a jumper.

You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

Some of the 'worst' red carpet looks of all time, it turns out, were really just ahead of their time.

We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

I would love to try trends from the '60s and '70s and on but still keep my look modern and young.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.

Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?