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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Tom Ford

I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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Challenge Clothes Color Fashion Feeling Greatness Myself Power Thinking
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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Audience Business Fashion Movie See Work
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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Children Escape Fashion Happiness Influence Life Live Myself
When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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Company Friendship Goodness Life Relationship Yourself
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.
TOM FORD

Advice Clothes Fashion Man
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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Advertisement Face Myself Power Thinking Understand Walk
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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Design Goodness Leaving Myself Style
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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Growth Happiness Old Thinking True Yourself
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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Desert Dog Hands Live Myself
You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Engagement Passionate World Yourself
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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Character Development Expression Identity Myself Style Work
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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Attraction Fashion Identity Myself People Thinking
I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
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Design Domination Ego Goal Home Job Myself Perfection Way World
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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Bed Creativity Disturb Ideas Myself Night Quiet
Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.
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Art Design Excitement Fashion Hairs Make Up Moments Music Myself Time Togetherness

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

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