If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
TOM FORDThe 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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 understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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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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Glamour 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.
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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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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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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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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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