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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’

Oscar de la Renta

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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Artist Consecration Country People
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
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
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
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 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, 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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Choices Fashion Personality
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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Charity Children Heart
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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Character Growing Important
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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Aroma Rooms Signatures
Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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Accepting Friend Want
I’ve lived every day to the fullest, and I’ve had a marvelous time. I’ve tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don’t. I enjoy what I’ve done.
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Done Nice People
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
A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
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Accessories Outfit Women
I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Artist Creative Restless
A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
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Clothes Wear Women

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