Prior to his acclaim on NBC/Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" as the interior design specialist for the Fab Five, Thom Filicia garnered praise through his own interior design company in New York City, Thom Filicia, Inc. (TFI). TFI specializes in both residential and commercial projects, with a range of high-profile clients in the fashion, entertainment, media, real-estate development, and finance industries.

In addition to the honor of being named one of House Beautiful's Top 100 American Designers, Thom has been profiled or featured in an ever-growing list of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, W, Teen Vogue, The Face, City, Entertainment Weekly, New York, Details, Out, Us Weekly, Cargo, Women's Wear Daily, People, The Advocate, The New York Post, In Touch, Interior Design, Hamptons, and House & Garden. Thom provides key writing to the Queer Eye book The Fab Five's Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better & Living Better and also contributes to the CD What's That Sound?: Music from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Thom has appeared in countless television programming including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, MTV's 2003 Video Music Awards (presenter), Access Hollywood (as red-carpet host for the 2003 Emmy Awards), CNN with Anderson Cooper, CNNfn, MSNBC's Squawk Box, NBC's comedy Good Morning Miami, E! News Daily, Barbara Walters Presents: The Top 10 Most Fascinating People of 2003, The Ellen Degeneres Show, The ViewVH1's Big in 2003 Awards (presenter), and South Park.

Corporate America and Fortune 500 companies have also taken notice of Thom Filicia's talents and marketability. Currently, Thom Filicia is the spokesperson for Pier 1 Imports and recently paired up with Xerox & Entrepreneur Magazine to judge and execute design elements for their Office Makeover Contest. Olympus called upon Thom's services to design the tents at Bryant Park for New York City's Fashion Week in February 2004. Other TFI highlights include a complete housing renovation for an Oprah viewer, as well as a table design for Elle Decor's Dining by Design at the 2004 DIFFA event. Thom and TFI's designs were also featured in the Kips Bay Designer Show house as well as the House & Garden's Hamptons Show house. Over the years, Thom has completed work in metropolitan New York City, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Miami, and Bermuda.

Thom studied Interior Design at Syracuse University's School of Art and Design. Early on, Thom focused his creativity on high-end interiors, working at the most venerable firms in New York City. Having established a strong classical foundation, Thom is now exercising his personal aesthetic that is driven by a unique and innovative vision of classic simplicity.

Thom and his contribution to the show recently landed him his first Emmy award for "Outstanding Reality Program" in September 2004. He was also nominated in a separate category for "Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program."