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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

Tom Ford

What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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Appearance Different Pride Wrong Yourself
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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Connection Person Time True Worth Yourself
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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Best People Respect Version World Yourself
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
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 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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Beautiful Clothes Customer Detail Man Myself Production Quality Service Woman
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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Appearance Believe Fashion Man Myself Play Simplicity Strong Work
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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Meditation Myself Stress Wound
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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Life Love Myself Pieces Science Try 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
In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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Adult End Honesty Life Love Myself
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
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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Death Earth Feeling Greatness Leaving Live Moments Myself Replacement Time Try
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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Clothes Fashion Fools Myself Uncomfortable Yourself
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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Believe Fashion Myself Need
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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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

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