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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More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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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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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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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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Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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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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