It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAI am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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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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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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Today, there is no fashion, really. There are just… choices. Women dress today to reveal their personalities. They used to reveal the designer’s personality.
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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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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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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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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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Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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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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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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