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Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.

Oscar de la Renta

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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Aroma Rooms Signatures
Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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Fashion Term Thinking
You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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Palace Sweaters
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Body Clothes Night Pour
Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Being Fashion Memorable Yourself
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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Dream Girl Reality
I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
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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Design Fashion Mad
Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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Dresses Fashion Signatures
The essence of style is how you live your life
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Essence Life Live Style Your
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
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
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
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
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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Character Growing Important
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

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.

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