Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAExcess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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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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I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.
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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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I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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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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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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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.
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I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can’t do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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Women think black is the most flattering color, but they’re wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
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