Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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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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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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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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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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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Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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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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Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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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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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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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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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 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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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
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