When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
TOM FORDI’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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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 don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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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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I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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