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Oscar de la Renta
Age: 82 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Died: 2014
Died: October 20
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Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
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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 lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.
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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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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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What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.
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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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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.
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Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.
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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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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'
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Every day you have to reinvent yourself
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My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.
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Style begins by looking good naked
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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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Elegance is a discipline of life.
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The essence of style is how you live your life
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I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.
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