Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
TOM FORDBoth 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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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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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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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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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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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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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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