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.
TOM FORDGlamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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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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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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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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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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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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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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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