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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.

Tom Ford

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
I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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Direction Drama Expectation Myself
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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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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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Change Decoration Fashion Life Reality
Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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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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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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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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