I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
TOM FORDThere are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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 had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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Everyday is one less day.
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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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I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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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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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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Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.
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It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
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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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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
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Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.
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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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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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You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
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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 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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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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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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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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