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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.

Tom Ford

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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Design Domination Ego Goal Home Job Myself Perfection Way World
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People 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
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
If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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Funny Man Myself Seduce Stand Time Woman 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
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Appearance Excellence Fashion Kind
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
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Advice Appearance Body Fashion Yourself
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
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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Meditation Myself Stress Wound
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Beautiful Love Myself Softness Touch
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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Bed Creativity Disturb Ideas Myself Night Quiet
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
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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Clothes Fashion Fools Myself Uncomfortable Yourself

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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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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