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.
OSCAR DE LA RENTALove. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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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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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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Online media is increasingly influential in 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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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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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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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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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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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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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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