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 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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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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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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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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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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