The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
TOM FORDAs 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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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less 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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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