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Dressing well is a form of good manners.

Tom Ford

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
Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Change Decoration Fashion Life Reality
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
At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Home Myself
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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
I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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Challenge Clothes Color Fashion Feeling Greatness Myself Power Thinking
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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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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Desert Dog Hands Live Myself
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
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
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
I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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Believe Fear Myself Stop
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
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

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