Tom Ford Quotes

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.

Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

It's important to accessorise. I always turn to the scarves, hats and sunglasses. But wearing too many accessories at once can look very bad.

Men: don't wear the untucked shirttail. It cuts you in half, which is a very bad proportion. Think of yourself as a series of thirds. So when the shirt is tucked in, you're 1/3 on top, 2/3 on the bottom.

I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.

I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Each time I’m coming out of my apartment I remember the quote of Coco Chanel; she said, ‘Each time I’m leaving my apartment or my hotel, I’m looking at myself in the mirror and I take off one piece of my look. It’s always one thing too much.’ And it’s a bit the same, always I take off my scarf or I take off my bag or jewellery because I like it simple. Coco Chanel is a great consultant I think.

Leggings are everywhere, indeed. Personally, I'm not crazy about them, but they can look great with the right look, a tunic, for instance, or a long cardigan. Just don't try to dress them up!

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

If you lose a couple of inches off your stomach, your business down there will look a lot longer.

If I'm going to show cleavage or chest then I don't show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.

People found me ugly and weird looking. All those years of that whole insecurity thing just makes you feel horrible then really slowly you start to think if they can make me look nice in the picture then it's not that bad.

Be honest, how hideous do I look?" He took another step back and pursed his lips. "That bad, huh?" I muttered. No, no Bella. Actually. . ." He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look. . .sexy." I laughed out loud. "Right." Very sexy, really.

If you're wearing a jacket, as I always am, the sweater vest always needs to be buttoned, with the exception of the bottom button. But if you're going sans jacket, you can leave it open.

A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.