When we heard the guest announcement on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, we sat up straight in bed: Tom Ford?! Jimmy's a pro at chatting with actors, singers, and the occasional professional athlete, but fashion designers? It could be a first. In case you didn't catch the show [1], we're sharing the most fascinating tidbits we learned here, from his reaction to Jay Z's hit to those rumors that he's choosy about dressing celebs for the red carpet [2].

On whether he likes dressing celebrities: "I noticed you said I didn't like it, and that's not quite true. There won't be many women [wearing Tom Ford at the Academy Awards] because I usually only dress one woman. What I have been known to say is that I don't necessarily love the process. Dressing actresses for the Oscars is not a creative process, really. When you're designing [a collection] you're able to kind of figure out what you believe in, and what the world needs right now, or what women need right now, and you're literally a voice in contemporary culture.

"When you're dressing an actress, you're really working with someone and fulfilling their dream, or their agent's dream, or their husband's dream. They have a preconceived notion of what style they want to wear, what they want to look like, [or] how they're marketing this film. You're kind of just making something for them that actually isn't particularly creative."

On red carpet trends: "What's worn on the red carpet has nothing to do with what's going on in contemporary fashion. It's really a kind of bubble of 1950s Barbie clothes that's quite different than what real people are really wearing."

On making the runway a bit more realistic: "There are people in the world who do wear runway outfits exactly as you see them. However, I always try to really send real things down the runway that I believe mean something. Not everyone does. Different people approach the business in different ways. Some people are artists; some people are commercial designers who are doing something artistic, which is what I am. A commercial designer."

On hearing Jay Z's "Tom Ford" for the first time: "I had to go on rap translator to translate it to sort of understand what it meant. But the message is really quite positive. He doesn't do drugs; he wears Tom Ford — that's how he gets his high. So who doesn't like that?"