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People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

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Tom Ford
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 27
Fashion Designer
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Austin
Texas
Thomas Carlyle Ford
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