Thom Browne Quotes

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• As a designer, I'm supposed to be provoking people's reactions, and getting people to see things differently. I think more of us should be doing…
• An idea that is confident always looks masculine.
• I feel like jeans and a T-shirt have become Establishment. Everyone’s dressed down. So actually putting on a jacket is the anti-­Establishment stance.
• If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.
• Anyone who is confident in themselves is much more stylish.
• The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.
• Men shouldn’t try too hard, or think about what they wear too much. I like when there’s something about a look that throws it off…
• I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything…
• Every man should own a navy cashmere jacket with gold buttons, a grey suit, black shoes shoes for the city, brown shoes for elsewhere. Everything…
• If you saw me every day, you would actually think I am wearing the exact same gray suit,
• I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater sets and the…
• Nothing is worse than a home that is too perfect and done. You have to live in it.
• When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.
• My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.
• As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have…
• I always like playing with some sort of typical convention or idea and turning it over.
• I act every day of my life.
• My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips.
• It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.
• I like to maintain my collection as a provocative collection that makes people think. While certainly my stamp will be visible on Black Fleece, it…

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