Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
TOM FORDA 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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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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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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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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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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