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Oscar de la Renta

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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Color Important Influence Obviously
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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Dresses Husband Stories
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.
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People Rooms Wow
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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Fashion Term Thinking
Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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Believe Hard Memorable Work
Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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Husband Pink Remembers Same Woman
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
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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Born Dies Reality Right Today
Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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Commitment Dream Monday
I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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Fashion Implications Known
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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Charity Children Heart
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
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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Color Eye Thinking
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.
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Fashion Looks Roles
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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Design Fall Spring Weather

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