Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAToday, 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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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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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Work hard. Believe in yourself. It’s not the publicity that sells the clothes, it’s the woman.
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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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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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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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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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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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