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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.

Oscar de la Renta

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
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
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
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
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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Clothes Fashion Memorable
In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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Fashion Important Moving
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
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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Latin Looks Wife
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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Body Clothes Night Pour
I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Beautiful Clothes Years
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
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
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Designer New York 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
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

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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