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.
TOM FORDYou have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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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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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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Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
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