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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Tom Ford

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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Company Food People Yourself
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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Artist Creation Design Fashion Myself
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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Clothes Fashion Fools Myself Uncomfortable Yourself
My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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Goal Help Myself Version Woman
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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Body Carry Fashion Impact Way Yourself
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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Design Domination Ego Goal Home Job Myself Perfection Way World
At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Home Myself
Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Appearance Excellence Fashion Kind
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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Need Pain Sex Woman Yourself
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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Art Design Excitement Fashion Hairs Make Up Moments Music Myself Time Togetherness
Everyday is one less day.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner
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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Connection Enjoyment Important Life Myself People
Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Different Fashion Style Work Yourself
From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
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Born Busy Death Deep Important Philosophy Time
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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Attraction Beautiful Connection Important Life Myself People Struggle Time Value
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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Energy Fake Feeling Honesty Love True Yourself
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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Connection Enjoyment Important Life Myself People
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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Believe Fear Myself Stop
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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Bed Creativity Disturb Ideas Myself Night Quiet
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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Appearance Clothes Fashion Goodness One Liner
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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Advice Clothes Fashion Man
Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Advice Appearance Body Fashion Yourself
I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive.
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Beautiful Clothes Customer Detail Man Myself Production Quality Service Woman
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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Meditation Myself Stress Wound
In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?
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Life Love Myself Pieces Science Try Yourself
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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Desert Dog Hands Live Myself
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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Funny Man Myself Seduce Stand Time Woman Yourself

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

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