If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
TOM FORDPeople 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 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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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 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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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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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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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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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 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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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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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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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