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.
TOM FORDOnly hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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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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I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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I 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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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You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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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 want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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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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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
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