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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

Oscar de la Renta

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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Color Eye Thinking
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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Body Diamonds Hands
My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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Beloved Disappoint President
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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Design Fashion Mad
A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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Clothes Wear Women
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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Character Growing Important
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Fashion Influential Media
I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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Casual Clothes Memorable
In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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Fashion Important Moving
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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Fragrance Introduced Leaves Woman
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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Done Nice People
As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.
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Design Fall Spring Weather
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
If you want to establish an international presence you can’t do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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Artist Consecration Country People
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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Bad Excess Talking Things

You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

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