I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
TOM FORDYou know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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