Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
TOM FORDFashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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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 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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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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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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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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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I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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