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Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

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I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.
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Done Nice People
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
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
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
Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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Husband Pink Remembers Same Woman
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
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Fashion Influential Media
I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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Adore Gardening Passion
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Color Garden Guitar
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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Born Thinking Way Women
Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.
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Born Dies Reality Right Today
Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Being Fashion Memorable Yourself
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
If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Different Perfume Recognize Warm

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