Oscar de la Renta
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.Collection: Gardening
Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
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.
I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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.
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.
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
Every season I am inspired by women.
I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
My customers are successful workingwomen.
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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.
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.Collection: Beautiful
Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.Collection: Dream
Be the designer of your own destiny.Collection: Life
It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your lifeCollection: Live Your Life
Every day you have to reinvent yourselfCollection: Reinventing Yourself
Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.Collection: Luxury
The essence of style is how you live your lifeCollection: Essence
Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.Collection: Want
Elegance is a discipline of life.Collection: Fashion
Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.Collection: Love Is
Walk like you have three men walking behind you.Collection: Fashion
The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.Collection: Fashion
If you don’t move, you get stale.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Discipline
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.Collection: Hands
Style begins by looking good nakedCollection: Style
My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.Collection: Islands
A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.Collection: Signatures
Fashion is a trend, style is within a person.Collection: Fashion
You don't need an introduction to succeed in life. You need to have good work. Work hard. Believe in yourselfCollection: Believe
Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.Collection: Creativity
Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Color
I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.Collection: Passion
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.Collection: Spring
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.Collection: Fashion