If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
TOM FORDOnly hire people you want to have dinner with.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”
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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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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.
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You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a ‘Tom Ford’ jacket? What do I believe in?
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The Gucci woman – you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman – she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.
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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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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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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.
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My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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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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From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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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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