Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAYes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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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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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 wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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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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Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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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’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?
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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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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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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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