Oscar de la Renta
My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.Collection: Beautiful
Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.Collection: Reality
You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I will help her and we start it with little school and then I fell in love with it.Collection: School
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?Collection: Dog
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Fashion
Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.Collection: New York
You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.Collection: Sweaters
My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'Collection: Latin
The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.Collection: Fashion
I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Beautiful
I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Nice
The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.Collection: Perfect
A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Eye
It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Lucky
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.Collection: Fashion
A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.Collection: Accessories
There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.Collection: Sound
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.Collection: Fashion
I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.Collection: Thinking
And smile, you know I always tell the girls to smile because I hate sad faces.Collection: Girl
Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Fashion
Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.Collection: Talking
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.Collection: Fashion
Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.Collection: Spring
If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.Collection: Different
Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Husband
In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.Collection: Fashion
A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.Collection: Fashion
Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.Collection: Believe
One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Fashion
Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Nature
I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.Collection: Fashion
My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.Collection: Jobs
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.Collection: Children
What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.Collection: Men