70+ Tom Ford Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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Chemistry Season
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
When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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Company Friendship Goodness Life Relationship Yourself
Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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Body Carry Fashion Impact Way Yourself
It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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Age Beautiful Control Funny Hard Live Thinking Tough Vulnerable Walk Yourself
What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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Connection Enjoyment Important Life Myself People
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People 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 thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking
I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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Choice Food Friendship Myself Party
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
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
I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
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Believe Destiny Fate Kind Learning Listening Myself
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
I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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Attitude Born Children Goodness Myself Natural
You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
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Energy Fake Feeling Honesty Love True Yourself
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
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
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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Different Discouragement Liberty Mindset Myself Parents
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
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
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
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
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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Dedication Imagination Job Life Love Passion Yourself

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