I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
TOM FORDWhen the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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 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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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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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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