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.
TOM FORDA film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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 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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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
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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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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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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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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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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