The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAFashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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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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I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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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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Fragrance must be introduced properly. 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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Women think black is the most flattering color, but they’re wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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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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Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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