Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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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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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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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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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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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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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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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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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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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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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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