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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More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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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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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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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.
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Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.
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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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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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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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You don’t go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.
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In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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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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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 am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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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 don’t really know how to do casual clothes.
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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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Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it’s about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
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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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Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
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I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
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If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?
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