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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

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
TOM FORD

Advice Appearance Body Fashion Yourself
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
TOM FORD

Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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.
TOM FORD

Art Design Excitement Fashion Hairs Make Up Moments Music Myself Time Togetherness
I 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.
TOM FORD

Beautiful Clothes Customer Detail Man Myself Production Quality Service Woman
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
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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Audience Business Fashion Movie See Work
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

Advice Clothes Fashion Man
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
I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.
TOM FORD

Growth Happiness Old Thinking True Yourself
On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
TOM FORD

Desert Dog Hands Live Myself
Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
TOM FORD

Exception Fashion Lost Man
At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
TOM FORD

Appearance Clothes Fashion Home Myself
I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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Challenge Clothes Color Fashion Feeling Greatness Myself Power Thinking
I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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Myself Person Personality Reality
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.
TOM FORD

Best People Respect Version World Yourself
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
TOM FORD

Beautiful Love Myself Softness Touch

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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