Dressing well is a form of good manners.
TOM FORDYou have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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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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It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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You 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.
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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.
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Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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Everyday is one less day.
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