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.
TOM FORDI 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.
More Tom Ford Quotes
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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 believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.
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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.
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Dressing well is a form of good manners.
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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 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!”
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I don’t wear a lot of color. In fact, I don’t actually like color on myself. I love color but it’s very challenging, it’s very powerful, it can overpower you. I think if my eyes were closed and someone put a red jacket on me, I would be able to feel that it was red. I don’t feel great in color.
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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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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
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I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.
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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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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 am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.
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I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well
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The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.
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