In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
TOM FORDOnly hire people you want to have dinner with.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
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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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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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What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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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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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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A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
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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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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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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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