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I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Oscar de la Renta

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
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
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
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
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
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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Bad Excess Talking Things
Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it’s a letdown after the show is over. It’s done. Something you’ve worked on for months is just over.
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Done might Month Months Regardless
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
Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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Believe Hard Memorable Work
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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Beloved Disappoint President
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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Charity Children Heart
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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Hands Light Travel
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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Body Diamonds Hands
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
A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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Accessories Outfit Women

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