I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
TOM FORDIt’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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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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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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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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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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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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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?
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