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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 am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Beautiful Fashion Memorable
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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Dresses Husband Stories
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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Fashion Looks Roles
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
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
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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Fall Falling Fashion Love
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
I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.
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Done Nice People
I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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Casual Clothes Memorable
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
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
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
I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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Adore Gardening Passion
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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Fashion Implications Known
Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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Appreciate Luxury Way

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