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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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Choices Fashion Personality
I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Beautiful Clothes Years
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Beautiful Fashion Memorable
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
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
I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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Fashion Implications Known
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
I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.
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Beautiful Fantastic Giving
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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Bad Excess Talking Things
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
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
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
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
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
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

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