Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.
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 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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Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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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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I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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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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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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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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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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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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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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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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