The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAI 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.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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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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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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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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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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I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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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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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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