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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

The essence of style is how you live your life
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Essence Life Live Style Your
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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Aroma Rooms Signatures
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
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Body Clothes Night Pour
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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Dog Hamburgers Hot
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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Fashion Important Moving
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
Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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Husband Pink Remembers Same Woman
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
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
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
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
My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Customer Successful Women Working
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
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
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
If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Different Perfume Recognize Warm
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
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
Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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Curious Love Trying
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
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Color Garden Guitar
I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Beautiful Clothes Years
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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Beautiful Fantastic Giving
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Fashion Influential Media

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