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I’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.

Tom Ford

I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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Body Guilty Herself Man Marketing Myself See Woman
A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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Creation Feeling Personal Right Thinking True Yourself
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

Design Goodness Leaving Myself Style
What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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Appearance Different Pride Wrong Yourself
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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Dedication Imagination Job Life Love Passion Yourself
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
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
Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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Clothes Fashion Fools Myself Uncomfortable Yourself
I’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.
TOM FORD

Direction Drama Expectation Myself
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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Character Development Expression Identity Myself Style Work
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
TOM FORD

Beautiful Love Myself Softness Touch
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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Clothes Comfortable Effort Fashion Lost Man Myself People
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
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
I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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Death Earth Feeling Greatness Leaving Live Moments Myself Replacement Time Try

I’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.

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