I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
TOM FORDI think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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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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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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What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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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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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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