Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAFashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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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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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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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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When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes fashion.
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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
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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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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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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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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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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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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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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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