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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

France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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Appearance Attraction Myself People
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
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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Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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Born Busy Death Deep Important Philosophy Time
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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Attitude Born Children Goodness Myself Natural
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Dog Myself Success Walk
If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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Funny Man Myself Seduce Stand Time Woman Yourself
I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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Challenge Clothes Color Fashion Feeling Greatness Myself Power Thinking
You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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Believe Fashion Myself Need
Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Appearance God Woman Young
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
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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Age Beautiful Control Funny Hard Live Thinking Tough Vulnerable Walk Yourself
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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Attraction Fashion Identity Myself People Thinking
You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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Dedication Imagination Job Life Love Passion Yourself
I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking

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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