If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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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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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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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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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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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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Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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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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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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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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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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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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