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.
TOM FORDStyle is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
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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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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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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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I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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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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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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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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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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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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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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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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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