Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAFashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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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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I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought….I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses…I am using so many high curved belts.
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When I went to see Mrs. Clinton and we talk about the inaugural dress I ask her what would you like to achieve with this particular dress? And she said to me what I would like is – that when I walk into the room and people will look at me and say wow you look great.
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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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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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Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
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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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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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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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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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