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.
TOM FORDTime and silence are the most luxurious things today.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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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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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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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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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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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.
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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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