You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.
TOM FORDI 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’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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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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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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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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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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Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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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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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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 love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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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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