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.
TOM FORDIn 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?
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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I 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.
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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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 am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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 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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Everyday is one less day.
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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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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I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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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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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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