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.
TOM FORDI am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I 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.
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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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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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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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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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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