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

Oscar de la Renta

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
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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Color Important Influence Obviously
Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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Commitment Dream Monday
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Color Garden Guitar
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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Dresses Husband Stories
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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Body Diamonds Hands
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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Done might Month Months Regardless
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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Dog Hamburgers Hot
Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Being Fashion Memorable Yourself
It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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Fashion Imagination Important
I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.
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Fashion Looks Roles
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Emotional Fashion Memorable
I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.
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Beautiful Fantastic Giving
Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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Believe Hard Memorable Work
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York 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

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

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