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?
OSCAR DE LA RENTABe the designer of your own destiny.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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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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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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A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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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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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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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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I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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