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.
TOM FORDI am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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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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You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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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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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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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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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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