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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.

Tom Ford

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.
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Character Development Expression Identity Myself Style Work
I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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Ability Goodness Greatness Myself People Talent
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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Believe Destiny Fate Kind Learning Listening Myself
Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Different Fashion Style Work Yourself
At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Home Myself
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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Meditation Myself Stress Wound
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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Attraction Beautiful Connection Important Life Myself People Struggle Time Value
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Engagement Passionate World Yourself
It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Appearance Fashion Hard Sex
Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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Chemistry Season
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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Death Earth Feeling Greatness Leaving Live Moments Myself Replacement Time Try
My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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Goal Help Myself Version Woman
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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Life Love Myself Pieces Science Try Yourself
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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Change Collection Decoration Fashion Myself People Reality Start
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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Change Movie Myself People Sick Thinking World

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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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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