You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
TOM FORDI am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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.
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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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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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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 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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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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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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A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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