Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAMy customers are successful workingwomen.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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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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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 don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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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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Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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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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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.
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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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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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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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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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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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