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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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Design Fashion Mad
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Beautiful Fashion Memorable
You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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Palace Sweaters
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 adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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Adore Gardening Passion
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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Clothes Fashion Memorable
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?
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Dog Hamburgers Hot
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
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Color Garden Guitar
I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
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
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
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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Fall Falling Fashion Love
Be the designer of your own destiny.
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Future Life Motivational
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

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