I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAI’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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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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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.
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The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman’s life and maybe never stops growing.
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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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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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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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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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The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she’s been there.
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