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 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.
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On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
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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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Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you’ll project: ‘I look like a fool.’
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I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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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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