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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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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Color Garden Guitar
Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Being Fashion Memorable Yourself
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
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
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
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
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
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Body Clothes Night Pour
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
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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Body Diamonds Hands
Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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Fashion Term Thinking
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
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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Charity Children Heart
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
A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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Accessories Outfit Women

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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