I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
TOM FORDIf my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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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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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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