Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
TOM FORDI am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.
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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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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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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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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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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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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If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
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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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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 believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I never let that stop me.
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