From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.
TOM FORDDressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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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I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.
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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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Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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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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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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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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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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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 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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Only hire people you want to have dinner with.
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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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I think that they haven’t been able to perfect a good facelift for a man.
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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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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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