British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
TOM FORDI think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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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 thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Everyday is one less day.
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I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
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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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