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" Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. "
Tom Ford
Known
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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 don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them. "
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" Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual. "
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" Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give. "
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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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" When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. "
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" I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. "
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" From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. "
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" The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. "
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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 of themselves. "
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" The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. "
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" There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. "
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" When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. "
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" I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie. "
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" I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot. "
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" 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. "
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" In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up. "
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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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" My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great. "
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" Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet. "
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" I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me. "
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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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