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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. "

Tom Ford

Soft

Spoiled

Comfort

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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. "

" The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. "

" I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it. "

" I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. "

Tom Ford

Perfection

Striving

" 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. "

" I don't want to find myself designing for the press. "

" It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head. "

" We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator? "

" 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. "

" I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very serious person. "

" 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. "

" I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person. "

" 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. "

" British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level. "

" I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body. "

" Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual. "

" When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. "

" Fashion is harder than the film industry. You have to constantly be able to crank out hit after hit after hit on demand and on a very tight calendar. I've come back, I've lost it, I've come back again. It's really as good as your last collection. "

" 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. "

Tom Ford

Fashion

Love

" You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish. "

" I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I'm going to do the Don Loper fashion show from 'I Love Lucy.' "

" 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. "

" Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him. "

" 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. "

Tom Ford

Struggle

People