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 FORDBritish 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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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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At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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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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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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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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