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Fashion Quotes by Tom Ford

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Tom Ford treats fashion as an escape, a dream you can wear. He insists good manners start with proper dress, that tailored T‑shirts should last decades, and that shorts belong on a tennis court, not city streets. He also hopes clothing can be handed down, lasting ten or twenty years.

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Fashion creates a bit of a dream

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Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

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Dressing well is an expression of manners.

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I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

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It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.

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Dressing well is a form of good manners.

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I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.

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Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

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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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Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

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Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.

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Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

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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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My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version…

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We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as…

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Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It's not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes.…

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In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been…

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I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long…

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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…

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I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at…

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I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place…

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I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they…

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If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too…

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But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that…

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I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an…

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I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I…

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British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau…

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I interview these people all the time who come to my office and say, "I want to be a fashion designer." I…

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I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things.…

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Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the…

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When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through…

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I think that something that people in general forget to do - and it's true, not everyone has the financial means to…

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If we're having a glitzy over-the-top moment, fashion is very glitzy and over-the-top, you know, over-the-top. If we're having a moment where…

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She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

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France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

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The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

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I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

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I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.

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I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in…

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Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

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I'm a very serious person.

Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny…

Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.

I went through some tough times because if you're used to having a voice in contemporary culture and all of sudden, you don't have…

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

We do objectify women in our culture. We're starting to objectify men a little bit more. And there is nothing wrong with that. Objectify…

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have…

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.

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…

Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.