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.
TOM FORDYou can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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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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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.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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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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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 believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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