I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
TOM FORDI think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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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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You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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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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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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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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