black
grey
blue
red
brown
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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

Oscar de la Renta

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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Adore Gardening Passion
My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Customer Successful Women Working
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
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
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
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 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
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
Be the designer of your own destiny.
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Future Life Motivational
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
I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
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
Gardening is how I relax. It’s another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Color Garden Guitar
You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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Palace Sweaters
Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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Dresses Fashion Signatures

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

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