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?
OSCAR DE LA RENTAA fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she’s been there.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it’s a letdown after the show is over. It’s done. Something you’ve worked on for months is just over.
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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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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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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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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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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.
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Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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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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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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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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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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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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