I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
TOM FORDI thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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 I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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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 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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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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 am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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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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As 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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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