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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.

Tom Ford

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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Meditation Myself
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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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Advice Clothes Fashion Man
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
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Beautiful Love Myself Softness Touch
I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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Change Movie Myself People Sick Thinking World
Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Different Fashion Style Work Yourself
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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Appearance Attraction Myself People
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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Attraction Beautiful Connection Important Life Myself People Struggle Time Value
If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Dog Myself Success Walk
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
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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Exception Fashion Lost Man
She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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Cry Drink Herself Need Perfection
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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Change Collection Decoration Fashion Myself People Reality Start
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

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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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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