Oscar de la Renta famous quotes

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Kindness #Quality #Admire

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.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Spring #Fall #Weather

Be the designer of your own destiny.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Motivational #Destiny #Designer

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Thinking #Rewards #Each Day

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life
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#Live Your Life

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Children #Heart #Charity

Every day you have to reinvent yourself
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#Reinventing Yourself

I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.
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#Passion #Gardening #Adore

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Being Yourself #Memorable

A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Home #Play

Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Memorable #Clothes

Style begins by looking good naked
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#Style #Naked #Looking Good

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.
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#Fashion #Men #Three

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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#Fashion #Looks #Great Things

Elegance is a discipline of life.
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#Fashion #Discipline #Elegance

The essence of style is how you live your life
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#Essence #Live Your Life #Style

I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Naked #Well Dressed #Wells

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Knowing #Islands #Who I Am

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.
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#Fashion #Men #Crowds

If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Different #Perfume

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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#Luxury #Appreciate #Way

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Perfect #Important #All Time

The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever. The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning is how you appreciate every single day of life.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Reality #Thinking #Appreciate

Fashion is a trend, style is within a person
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#Fashion #Style #Trends

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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#Rooms #Signatures #Should

A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.
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#Fashion #Runway

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. Until the 70s, women listened to designers. Now women want to do it their own way. There are no boundaries. And without boundaries, there is no fashion.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Personality #Choices

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. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Husband #Pay #Red

A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Accessories

Style begins by looking good naked. It's a discipline. And if you don't dress well every day, you lose the habit. It's not about what you wear, but about how you live your life.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Discipline #Live Your Life #Style

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Dream #Monday #Commitment

Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. 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.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Rooms #Signatures

I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Artist #Creative #Restless

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Inspirational #Success #New Year

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

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Artist #Color #Light

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
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#Fashion #Destiny #Exciting

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Garden #Color #Creating

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.
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#Hands #Body #Doe

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Individuality #Important

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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#Beautiful #Fashion #Clothes

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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#Fashion #Emotional #Elements

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.
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#Beautiful #Life Changing #Live Life

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Jobs #Memorable #Designer

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.
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#Fashion #Moving #Important

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

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.
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#Important #Today #Femininity

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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#New York #Paris #Want

When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.
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#Morning #Flower #Boys

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Believe #Hard Work #Memorable

Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
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#Eye #Thinking #Color

I don't really know how to do casual clothes
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#Memorable #Clothes #Casual

Every season I am inspired by women.
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#Memorable #Inspired

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 Renta

#Character #Important #Growing

You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourself
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Believe #Hard Work #Needs

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Imagination #Important

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Development #Internet #Tweet

My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Beautiful #Fashion #Optimistic

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Travel #Light #Hands

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?
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Dog #Hamburgers #Hot

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Creativity #Skills #Talent

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.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Looks #Roles

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater,
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Sweaters #Palaces #Buckingham Palace

The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die,
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Reality #Born

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.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Beautiful #Giving #Fantastic

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Want #Accepting

I’m a happy fellow. I feel very privileged, lucky, that I have had a wonderful life. And that I have been always allowed to do what I love,
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Lucky #Wonderful #Wonderful Life

If you don’t move, you get stale.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Moving #Stale

My customers are successful workingwomen.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Successful

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Thinking #Firsts #Dresses

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Sound #Dresses #Feminine

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Hate #Names #Giving

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Thinking #Term

Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Spring #Flower #Cutting

A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.
-- Oscar de la Renta

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Media #Influential

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

#New York #Thinking #Designer

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.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Falling In Love #Fall

Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Love Is #Trying #Curious

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.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Nice #People #Done

My entire concept of lifestyle is built on the foundation of my homes. There is no more important expression of this concept than that of my own personal living space.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Home #Expression #Space

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Childhood

I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Fashion #Mad #Design

Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Girl #Dream #Reality

My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
-- Oscar de la Renta

#President #Beloved #Disappoint

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Night #Clothes #Liquid

Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.
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#Thinking #Way #Born Free

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Done #Might #Months

I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
-- Oscar de la Renta

#Beautiful #Clothes #Years