Oscar de la Renta

Every season I am inspired by women.

— Oscar de la Renta

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

— Oscar de la Renta

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

— Oscar de la Renta

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

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A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.

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My customers are successful workingwomen.

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My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best

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It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

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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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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

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Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

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I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

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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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I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.

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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…

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My entire concept of lifestyle is built on the foundation of my homes. There is no more important expression of this concept…

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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women…

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You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I…

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When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in…

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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…

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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…

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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have…

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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

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You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater,

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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked

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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

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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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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?

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The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die,

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I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.

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You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourself

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If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.

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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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Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

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I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

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What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

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