Tom Ford: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Tom Ford

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 February 2020 source ↗

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Bernadette Peters

A peaceful, joyous time in the world…or in my head.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 9 April 2025 source ↗

Terry Gross Radio interviewer

A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2012 source ↗

Martin Scorsese

I think you can strive to attain it, but be realistic about the outcome. In the meantime, I find I might be experiencing it through flashes or brief moments in love and art, and at times just being alive.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2010 source ↗

Scottie Pippen