Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
TOM FORDWant girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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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 don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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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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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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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