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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.

Oscar de la Renta

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
Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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Born Thinking Way Women
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 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
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
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
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
You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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Palace Sweaters
I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
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
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
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
In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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Fashion Important Moving
When I went to see Mrs. Clinton and we talk about the inaugural dress I ask her what would you like to achieve with this particular dress? And she said to me what I would like is – that when I walk into the room and people will look at me and say wow you look great.
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People Rooms Wow
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
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
I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.
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Color Important Influence Obviously
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
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
A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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Accessories Outfit Women
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
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Fashion Influential Media
I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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Adore Gardening Passion
Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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Fashion Term Thinking
A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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Clothes Wear Women
My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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Beloved Disappoint President
My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Customer Successful Women Working

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