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.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAI am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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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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Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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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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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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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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One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.
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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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In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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