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First Of All, I Love Women. But I Lust After Beautiful Women In The Way That I Lust After A Beautiful Piece Of Sculpture - This Will Probably Get Me In Trouble - Or A Beautiful Car. I Believe Everyone's On A Sliding Scale Of Sexuality. There Are Moments Where I Am Sexually Attracted To Women. But It Doesn't Overpower My First Impulse; My Lust For Them Is The Same As My Lust For Beauty In All Things.

-Tom Ford

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Tom Ford

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First Of All, I Love Women. But I Lust After Beautiful Women In The Way That I Lust After A Beautiful Piece Of Sculpture - This Will Probably Get Me In Trouble - Or A Beautiful Car. I Believe Everyone's On A Sliding Scale Of Sexuality. There Are Moments Where I Am Sexually Attracted To Women. But It Doesn't Overpower My First Impulse; My Lust For Them Is The Same As My Lust For Beauty In All Things.

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We Live In A Material World. I'm Not Saying That Beautiful Things Don't Enhance Our Lives. But, In Our Culture, We're Never Happy.

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To Me, Beauty And Sadness Are Very Closely Linked. Truly Beautiful Things Make Me Sad Because I Know They Are Going To Fade. When I See A Beautiful 20-year-old Boy Or Girl-and They Are Breathtaking-i Am Filled With A Kind Of Sadness. But Maybe They Are Beautiful Because We Know They Are Not Permanent And They Are In A Kind Of Transition.

I Don't Wear A Lot Of Color. In Fact, I Don't Actually Like Color On Myself. I Love Color But It's Very Challenging, It's Very Powerful, It Can Overpower You. I Think If My Eyes Were Closed And Someone Put A Red Jacket On Me, I Would Be Able To Feel That It Was Red. I Don't Feel Great In Color.

You Have To Look Inside Yourself And You Have To Say, Well, What Am I About? Why Does Anyone Need This? Why Does Anyone Need A 'tom Ford' Jacket? What Do I Believe In?

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When I Read About Young Designers Selling 51 Percent Of Their Company To Someone Else, I Cringe. I Want To Say, 'don't Do It - Call Me First.'

Style. People Talk About It Being Stylish And Beautiful, That's At The Service Of The Story. Style For Me Means Nothing Without Substance And There Are Moments And Things About The Film That Are Stylish But Hopefully At The Service Of The Story.

Oh My God, So Many Young Girls Now Look Like Whores!

I Grew Up In New Mexico, And The Older I Get, I Have Less Need For Contemporary Culture And Big Cities And All The Stuff We Are Bombarded With. I Am Happier At My Ranch In The Middle Of Nowhere Watching A Bug Carry Leaves Across The Grass, Listening To Silence, Riding My Horse, And Being In Open Space.

I Went Through Some Tough Times Because If You're Used To Having A Voice In Contemporary Culture And All Of Sudden, You Don't Have That Voice, You Don't Have That Outlet. I Didn't Appreciate That. I Didn't Understand How Important That Was To Me. And All Of A Sudden, After Investing All This Time And Energy, I Had No Identity. I Didn't Know Who I Was. I Didn't Know What I Had To Say. I Didn't Have A Way To Say It. It Was Very Painful.

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Fashion Is, After All, A Form Of Escapism, And In Fact People Are Buying More Special Things Than Ever, Nowadays. They Deny And Deny Themselves, And Wait And Wait, And Then They Get Sick Of It And Spend To Make Themselves Feel Better.

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I Was The Sensitive, Shy Kid That Was Teased A Lot. I Was Very Definitely Bullied. I Mean, From An Early Age, I Dressed More Like An Adult, You Know, Jackets And Very Slim Trousers And A Raincoat. And I - Even When I Was 7, 8, 9-years-old, Carried An Attache Case To School Because I Just Hated The Sloppiness Of A Book Bag.

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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?

This Is Going To Sound Crazy, But The First Thing I Do When I Get Home Is Take Off All My Clothes - At Home, Just Around The House. I Take Everything Off. I Can't Stand Clothes! I Take Everything Off - My Shoes, My Socks, My Watch, Shirt, Everything. I Am Completely Naked.

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If It's Not Fun, I'm Not Going To Do It.

It's Really Never Fair To Judge People Because None Of Us Know What's Going On Inside Anyone Else's Head.

I Don't Work For Money Any Longer. I Work For Pride.

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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.

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.

I Think Some Journalists And Bloggers Want Their Articles To Be Clever, And The Way Into That Is By Writing Nasty Things. I Think Our Culture Likes To Be Mean. I Don't Just Find This In Fashion - I Find It In The News. More And More, It Is About Ripping People Apart.

When I Am On My Deathbed, I Don't Think I Will Be Thinking About A Nice Pair Of Shoes I Had Or My Beautiful House. I Am Going To Be Thinking About An Evening I Spent With Somebody When I Was Twenty Where I Felt That I Was Just Absolutely Connected To Them.

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One Of My Favorite Teams Of All Time Is Fran And Barry. I Just Thought Fran And Barry Last Season Were Just Incredible And They Just Sort Of Went Against All Odds And Were Very Successful.

I Think That Right Now We're In A Very Hard Moment And Off-putting. I Mean, Look At Shoes Today - Women's Shoes. They Couldn't Possibly Get Any Higher And Meaner And Sharper. But Then Again, You Go And Watch Most Films Today, They're Violent And We're Living In A World That Is, At The Moment, Quite Hard.

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.

My Real Life’s Not Like The Fantasy Tom Ford World – With Naked Girls Pouring Perfume Everywhere. It’s More Staying In And Watching Friends On Television.

Dressing Well Is An Expression Of Manners.

It's Hard Not To Be Sexy In A Pair Of High Heels.

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.

When I Come Home I Actually Take Off All My Clothes, And I Wear No Clothes Until I Leave. I Eat Naked. I Do Everything Completely Naked.

The Thing About Eyewear Is That It Is So Potent, There Are Very Few Accessories That, If You Were Not Wearing Anything, If You Put On They Would Date You To A Whole Era. You Could Look The Thirties, The Fifties, And The Nineties Just By Your Eyewear. It's Like A Pair Of Shoes Because It Is Sculptural. It Exists Without A Face. It Tells A Lot About Where You Are Architecturally Or Aesthetically In A Particular Period In Time.

In Another Life I Would Love To Be A Cosmetic Surgeon Because It’s Architectural. You Know, You Are Trying To Figure Out Where The Seams Go. Can I Do It In One Piece Like Halston? Can You Formaldehyde Dna?

Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I Do. I Question Everything I Do Every Step Of The Way. Once I Make The Decision I'm Almost Blinded By Believing In It, And Then I Usually Hate Everything I've Done.

I'm Living The Exact Life I Planned On Living When I Was Five.

I Never Want To Retire Until The Day I Drop Dead. I Want To Work And Work And Work Because Work, I Don't Do For Money, I Do For Love. And I Love To Work.

L.a. Is My American City.

American Cities

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.

I Have A Driver In London Because I Am Slightly Dyslexic And Cannot Drive In The U.k.; After All, The Traffic Runs The Opposite Way To That In The United States.

When The Youth Of America Gets Together, Amazing Things Happen.

We Are Actually Starting To Manipulate Our Bodies, Because We Can, Into A Shape. We Are Becoming Our Own Art. But What Happens For Me Is That It Desexualizes Everything. You Know, You Start To Look More And More Polished, More And More Lacquered And You Look Like A Beautiful Car. Does Anyone Want To Sleep With You? Does Anyone Want To Touch You? Does Anyone Want To Kiss You? Maybe Not, Because You're Too Scary.

Never, Ever, Ever Wear Anything You Are Uncomfortable In. Because That Is What You'll Project: 'i Look Like A Fool.'

I'm Actually Very Introverted. I'm Very Shy. I'm Very Emotional.

It Was Like One Of Those Dreams At High School When Everyone Else Has Clothes On Except You.

Artists, Like Yourself, Are Born With A Need To Express That's Just Innate.

I Think The 1970s Will Always Be The Decade For Me. Obviously, I Grew Up In That Era, But The Beauty Standard Was Touchable, Kissable.

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 Fashion Designer. What I Do Is Artistic, But I'm Not An Artist Because Everything I Do Is Destined To Be Sold. That's Not To Say That You Can't Be An Artist And A Fashion Designer. I Think Some Designers Are Artists.

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.

If My Parents Had Discouraged Me, I Would Have Turned Out Very Differently. They Raised Me In An Open-minded, Liberal Environment.

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.

I Love New York. It's Given Me So Much As A Designer. When I Moved Here, I Wanted To Tap Into The Glamour Of The City Immediately. More Than Anywhere Else, New York Offers Itself Up - You Arrive And Get A Rush In A Flash. It's Dazzling. Everywhere You Look, There Is Decoration, From A Pair Of Jewel-encrusted Shoes In The Window In Bergdorf Goodman To The Chrysler Building. And New York Is Incredibly Democratic. Everyone Is Packed Into This Tiny Space. You Are Confronted With All Manner Of People, And I Love That.

My Own Skin-care Ritual Is Quite Simple And Straightforward; I Don't Like A Lot Of Fuss, Surprisingly. My Products Are Designed To Make You Look And Feel Better. I Think There Are A Lot Of Men Out There Who Want And Need The Same Products.

I Think People Who Are Attracted To The Fashion Industry Are People Who Are Really Insecure And Looking For A Certain Identity.

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.

If I Were Straight And I Were Trying To Seduce A Woman, I Could Do It Just By Standing Up At The Table When She Came Back From The Bathroom. It Works. Every Time I Do That, All The Straight Men Are Sitting At The Table And Their Wives Are Kicking Them. "look At That!" "you Never Do That For Me!"

You Always Notice A Facelift On A Woman. It's A Tightness Around The Ears, And The Scar Is Usually Inside The Ears. If I Suspect It's Been Done, I Usually Move Around Until I Can See It. But With A Man, It Actually Pulls Your Beard And Your Sideburns Back, And That's What's So Strange.

I Like Putting On A Suit. I Like Putting On A Tie.

I Like To Just Have Fun And Be Silly And Say Pretty Much Whatever Comes Into My Mind, Do Pretty Much Whatever I Want.

You Know That Only Thing That Has Made The Whole Thing Worthwhile Has Been Those Few Times That I Was Able To Truly Connect With Another Person.

Fashion Creates A Bit Of A Dream

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.

I Don't Want To Find Myself Designing For The Press.

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