Tom Ford: What do you fear most? — FLAPSS

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What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

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Tom Ford

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Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗

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Harlan Coben American author

I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗

Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2026 source ↗

Regrets. That’s no way to live.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗

Patrick Stewart Actor

That I would lose her.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2016 source ↗

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Question Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? Values & belief

Gloria Steinem.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2020 source ↗

Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Life with no Instagram and no selfies. I am so tired of looking at people staring out of the window of a private plane with a small dog in their laps.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 February 2020 source ↗

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