Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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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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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
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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 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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In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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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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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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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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