Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAIf you want to establish an international presence you can’t do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it’s a letdown after the show is over. It’s done. Something you’ve worked on for months is just over.
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Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she’s been there.
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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.
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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.
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The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman’s life and maybe never stops growing.
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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes fashion.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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