Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
TOM FORDPeople 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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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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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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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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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