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.
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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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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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 should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
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I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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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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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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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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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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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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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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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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