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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.

Tom Ford

Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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Different Fashion Style Work Yourself
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
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
A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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Creation Feeling Personal Right Thinking True Yourself
It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.
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Age Beautiful Control Funny Hard Live Thinking Tough Vulnerable Walk 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 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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Change Movie Myself People Sick Thinking World
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 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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Believe Fashion Myself Need
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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Character Development Expression Identity Myself Style Work
I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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Ability Goodness Greatness Myself People Talent
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
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
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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Design Goodness Leaving Myself Style
Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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Exception Fashion Lost Man
I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.
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Myself Person Personality Reality
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
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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Direction Drama Expectation Myself
My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.
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Goal Help Myself Version Woman
I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
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Body Guilty Herself Man Marketing Myself See Woman
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
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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Children Escape Fashion Happiness Influence Life Live Myself
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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Myself Obsession Perfection Personality
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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Dedication Imagination Job Life Love Passion Yourself
The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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Earth Place Run World
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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Feeling Moments Perfection Sick Thinking Time Yourself
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

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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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