In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
TOM FORDI’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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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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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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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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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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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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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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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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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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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