Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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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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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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It’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.
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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.
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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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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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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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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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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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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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