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.
TOM FORDIn 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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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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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.
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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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 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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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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The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
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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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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
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