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Oscar de la Renta

If you want to establish an international presence you can’t do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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Artist Consecration Country People
If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Different Perfume Recognize Warm
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
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
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
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
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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Done might Month Months Regardless
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
The essence of style is how you live your life
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Essence Life Live Style Your
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Beautiful Fashion Memorable
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Body Clothes Night Pour
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
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
My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Customer Successful Women Working

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