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My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.
Oscar de la Renta
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Oscar de la Renta
Age: 82 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Died: 2014
Died: October 20
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The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.
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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 the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.
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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.
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Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.
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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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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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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.
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