On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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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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 find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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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