If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.

Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

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

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

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

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it.

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

Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

I hope people will put aside Tom Ford the fashion designer and think about Tom Ford the filmmaker.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

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

You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.

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

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

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

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

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

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'

I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.

I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

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.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

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.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

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'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

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