I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
TOM FORDIn 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?
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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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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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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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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Everyday is one less day.
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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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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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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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