The essence of style is how you live your life
OSCAR DE LA RENTANever,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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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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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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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.
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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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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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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it’s a letdown after the show is over. It’s done. Something you’ve worked on for months is just over.
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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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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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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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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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