You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
TOM FORDOn the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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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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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I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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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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