black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.

Oscar de la Renta

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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Color Important Influence Obviously
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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Choices Fashion Personality
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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Color Eye Thinking
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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Design Fashion Mad
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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Dream Girl Reality
In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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Fashion Important Moving
I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.
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Design Fall Spring Weather
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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Character Growing Important
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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Born Dies Reality Right Today
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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Artist Consecration Country People
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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Dresses Fashion Signatures
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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Fragrance Introduced Leaves Woman
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.

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