There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
TOM FORDI 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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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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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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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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