I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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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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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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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I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought….I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses…I am using so many high curved belts.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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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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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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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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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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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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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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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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