In an interview by Jefferson Hack of AnOther magazine, Tom Ford gives his Five Commandments for Gentlemen:
1. You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
- DUH DUDE.
2. A gentleman today has to work. People who do not work are so boring and are usually bored. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
-DUH DUDE.
3. Manners are very important and actually knowing when things are appropriate. I always open doors for women, I carry their coat, I make sure that they’re walking on the inside of the street. Stand up when people arrive at and leave the dinner table.
-DUH DUDE.
4. Don’t be pretentious or racist or sexist or judge people by their background.
-DUH DUDE.
5. A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
- WAIT WAIT WAIT…So I have to listen to Tom Ford, the fashion designer who does not live in the real world, who probably has two women on salary to feed him grapes and fan his hindquarters. I have to listen to a man, who probably pays a man to do research on creating his own personal Human Centipede, tell me that it is not o.k. to wear shorts? Fuck that. Also this fifth commandment completely makes everything he says in commandment four, sound like horseshit. I’m gonna wear so much shorts this summer!
