You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
TOM FORDYou 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?
More Tom Ford Quotes
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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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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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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On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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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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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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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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