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 FORDEvery season, really, has their own chemistry.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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 am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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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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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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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 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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In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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