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.
TOM FORDI think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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 thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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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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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
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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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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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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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