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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.

Tom Ford

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.
TOM FORD

Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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Age Beautiful Control Funny Hard Live Thinking Tough Vulnerable Walk Yourself
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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Best People Respect Version World Yourself
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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Design Goodness Leaving Myself Style
I think people are sick of trends changing every six months – not because we’re tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
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Change Movie Myself People Sick Thinking World
Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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Body Carry Fashion Impact Way Yourself
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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Change Collection Decoration Fashion Myself People Reality Start
You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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Believe Fashion Myself Need
I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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Ability Goodness Greatness Myself People Talent
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
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Advice Appearance Body Fashion Yourself
Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Appearance Fashion Hard Sex
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.
TOM FORD

Believe Life Live Myself
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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Meditation Myself Stress Wound
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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Life Love Myself Pieces Science Try Yourself

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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