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.
TOM FORDIf I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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.
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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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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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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.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Everyday is one less day.
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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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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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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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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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