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.
TOM FORDIf 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!”
More Tom Ford Quotes
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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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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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You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.
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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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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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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 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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There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.
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It’s hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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Every season, really, has their own chemistry.
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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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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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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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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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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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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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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