Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
TOM FORDAs 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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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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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
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