The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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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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 is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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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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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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It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.
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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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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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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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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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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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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.
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Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.
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