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.
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.
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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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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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 am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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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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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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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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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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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
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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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