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.
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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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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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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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 world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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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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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’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
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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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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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