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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

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Change Decoration Fashion Life Reality
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
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
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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Desert Dog Hands Live Myself
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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Born Busy Death Deep Important Philosophy Time
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
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.
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Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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Connection Person Time True Worth Yourself
Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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Appearance God Woman Young
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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Funny Man Myself Seduce Stand Time Woman Yourself
You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Engagement Passionate World Yourself
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
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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 am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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Myself Person Personality Reality
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
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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Beautiful Love Myself Softness Touch
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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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Believe Fear Myself Stop
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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Amazing People Togetherness Unity Youth
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
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 am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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Alone Job Lonely Myself Night People Person Personality Thinking
What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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Appearance Different Pride Wrong Yourself
If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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Different Discouragement Liberty Mindset Myself Parents
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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Growth Happiness Old Thinking True Yourself

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?

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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?

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