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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. "
Tom Ford
Help
Style
Goal
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes. "
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" I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so. "
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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. "
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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 don't read like anything. "
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" Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. "
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" Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever. "
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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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" 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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" I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied. "
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" 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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You
" The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. "
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Lost
" 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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Want
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. "
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" I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. "
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Me
" I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. "
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" There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park. "
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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 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 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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" There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible. "
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" Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth. "
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" I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. "
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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 time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet! "
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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 a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them. "
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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 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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