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.
TOM FORDOh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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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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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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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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France? I don’t want to be anti-French but there isn’t a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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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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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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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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