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Oscar de la Renta

Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York Thinking
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
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Fashion Influential Media
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
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
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
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
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
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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Hands Light Travel
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
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 would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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Fashion Implications Known
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
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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Born Dies Reality Right Today
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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Fashion Great Looks Things
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Body Clothes Night Pour

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