Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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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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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
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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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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.
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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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