I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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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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Everyday is one less day.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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