Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAWhen 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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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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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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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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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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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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The essence of style is how you live your life
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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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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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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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I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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