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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.

Tom Ford

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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Clothes Fashion Fools Myself Uncomfortable Yourself
I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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Myself Person Personality Reality
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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Creation Feeling Personal Right Thinking True Yourself
Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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Chemistry Season
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
Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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Deep Luxury Price Silence Time
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
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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Audience Business Fashion Movie See Work
The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
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Need Pain Sex Woman Yourself
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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Connection Enjoyment Important Life Myself People
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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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Choice Food Friendship Myself Party
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
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
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
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
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Advice Clothes Fashion Man
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Advice Appearance Body Fashion Yourself
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
She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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Cry Drink Herself Need Perfection
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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Amazing People Togetherness Unity Youth
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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Design Goodness Leaving Myself Style
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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Connection Person Time True Worth Yourself
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 thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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Myself Stupidity Thinking
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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Fashion 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.
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Art Design Excitement Fashion Hairs Make Up Moments Music Myself Time Togetherness

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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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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