Tom Ford Quotes - Page 3

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• Bill Sofield has the ability to understand the architecture of a space and how to utilize it in the most beautiful way. He can create completely different styles for his clients based on who they are and what their taste is. Our efforts have always been collaborative, and I value what he brings to the table architecturally and aesthetically.

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  Beautiful, Space, Effort

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• I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

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  Lying, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

  Tom Ford

  Strong, Believe, Cutting

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• If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

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  Parent, Environmental, Open Minded

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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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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  Children, Boss, My Family

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• 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.

  Tom Ford

  Country, New York, Kids

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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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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  Thinking, Be True To Yourself, Film

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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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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  Men, Common Sense, Marketing

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• I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

  Tom Ford

  Five

  "Tom Ford's Home on the Range". Interview with Lisa Eisner, www.gq.com.au. January 25, 2012.

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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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  Dog, Hands, Desert

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• The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

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  Seventies

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• Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

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  Fashion, Art, Makeup

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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 feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Luxury, Quality

  "In V: Julia Restoin-Roitfeld's Self Portraits Whilst Wearing Tom Ford". Interview with Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, www.racked.com. December 23, 2010.

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• 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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  People, Important, Connections

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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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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  Jobs, Home, Goal

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• Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!

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  Girl, Looks, Judgmental

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• I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

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  Party, Cocktails, Dinner

  "My List: Tom Ford in 24 Hours". www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2012.

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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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  Fashion, Insecure, Thinking

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• 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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  Tired, Thinking, People

  "The man with the golden touch" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2008.

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

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  Girl, Want, Certain

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

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  Pounds, Flattering, Jackets

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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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  Trying, One Day, Gone

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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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  Fashion, People, Groups

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• Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.

  Tom Ford

  Girl, Fashion, Mold

  "Tom Ford Unzipped". Interview with Tina Brown, www.thedailybeast.com. December 12, 2009.

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