I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAIf 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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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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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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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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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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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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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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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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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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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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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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