Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAAs 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.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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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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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 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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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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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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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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I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
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