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.
TOM FORDI 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.
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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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Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!
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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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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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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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I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
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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 probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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