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.
OSCAR DE LA RENTAI do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
More Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.
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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
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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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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 would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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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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Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure.
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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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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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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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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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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’
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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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