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 FORDIt’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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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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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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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.
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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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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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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Everyday is one less day.
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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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Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.
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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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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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Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.
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