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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.

Oscar de la Renta

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
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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Fashion Influential Media
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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Body Diamonds Hands
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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People Rooms Wow
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
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
Today, there is no fashion, really. There are just… choices. Women dress today to reveal their personalities. They used to reveal the designer’s personality.
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Choices Fashion Personality
Be the designer of your own destiny.
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Future Life Motivational
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’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
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
Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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Husband Pink Remembers Same Woman
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
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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Fall Falling Fashion Love
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

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