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 RENTAYou don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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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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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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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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If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?
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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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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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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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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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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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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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