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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.

Tom Ford

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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Challenge Clothes Color Fashion Feeling Greatness Myself Power Thinking
You 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.
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Energy Fake Feeling Honesty Love True Yourself
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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Connection Person Time True Worth Yourself
I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking
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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Change Collection Decoration Fashion Myself People Reality Start
Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Appearance Excellence Fashion Kind
You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Engagement Passionate World Yourself
Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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Meditation Myself
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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Advice Clothes Fashion Man
Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Different Fashion Style Work Yourself
Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Change Decoration Fashion Life Reality
Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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Exception Fashion Lost Man
She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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Cry Drink Herself Need Perfection
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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Head Judgement People Right Wrong
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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Feeling Moments Perfection Sick Thinking Time Yourself
Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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Chemistry Season

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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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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