Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
TOM FORDWant girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around 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 thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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In 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?
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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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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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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