Biografia

He joined Gucci in 1990 as a designer when the company was on the brink of bankruptcy. In 1994 he was promoted to creative director. By the time he left 10 years later (in 2004), Gucci was turning over profits in excess of $4 billion per annum.

Directed 2 actors to an Oscar nominated performance: Colin Firth and Michael Shannon.

American fashion designer. He is known for his legendary turnaround of Gucci.

Considers himself, first and foremost, a commercial designer who finds that filmmaking is what really speaks to his true artistic side.

During the interim between his directorial debut with A Single Man (2009) and Animali notturni (2016), Tom opened a reported 100 stores worldwide.

If you spend an hour and a half in a movie theater, it should challenge you.

I had a tiny bit of fashion training, but not really. I had no formal training as a film director either.

[observation, 2016] I am hoping for a Democratic president - though a female President won't be able to wear my clothes because they're too expensive. And I think that's absolutely right.

People don't understand it and they will probably laugh when they read this, but fashion is one of the most grueling, brutal industries in the world because we create a constant stream of product that is perishable. And it's speeding up so fast. People consume. They're bored. They consume. They're bored. They consume. They're bored.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think there needs to be - I don't really like the word moral - a moral to the story. You need to think about it. Things can be entertaining, but if you leave the theater and it doesn't stay with you, doesn't haunt you, doesn't challenge you, then it's not successful, for me. So I hope to make films that make one think. [2016]