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" A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm. "
Tom Ford
Movement
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" I think we're very uptight in America. You have to remember that we're descended from Puritans. Whether or not the country is now composed of immigrants, our culture as American really begins with the landing of the Pilgrims and a puritanical view of things. "
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" I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy. "
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" I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. "
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" We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that. "
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" I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to. "
Tom Ford
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" If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks. "
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" Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. "
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" Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth. "
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Earth
Important
People
" I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes. "
Tom Ford
Want
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Beautiful
" But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. "
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People
" There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them. "
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Day
" Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? 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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You
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Know
" 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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Stop
Important
People
" Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion. "
Tom Ford
Same
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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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Creating
Used
Fashion
" I'm a very serious person. "
Tom Ford
Serious
Person
Very
" As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best. "
Tom Ford
People
Best
Creative
" I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online. "
Tom Ford
Watch
Internet
Live
" It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it. "
Tom Ford
Enjoy
You
Wonderful
" 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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Believe
Living
You
" The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. "
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" College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. "
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College
" I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field. "
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Fashion
Think
Place
" I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner. "
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Bath
Prepare
Manner
" The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar. "
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Film
Done
" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "
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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
Want
Live
" Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. "
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Him
Copy
Take
" Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. "
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Life
Time
Focus
" There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park. "
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