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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.

Tom Ford

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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Design Domination Ego Goal Home Job Myself Perfection Way World
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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Clothes Comfortable Effort Fashion Lost Man Myself People
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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Direction Drama Expectation Myself
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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Attraction Fashion Identity Myself People Thinking
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?
TOM FORD

Life Love Myself Pieces Science Try Yourself
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Goodness One Liner
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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Best People Respect Version World Yourself
I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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Believe Life Live Myself
If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Dog Myself Success Walk
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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Connection Enjoyment Important Life Myself People
It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Appearance Fashion Hard Sex
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 FORD

Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
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 FORD

Age Beautiful Control Funny Hard Live Thinking Tough Vulnerable Walk Yourself
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.
TOM FORD

Body Carry Fashion Impact Way Yourself
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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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Appearance Attraction Myself People

A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.

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