Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
TOM FORDI want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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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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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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You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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