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What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.
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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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.
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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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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Walk like you have three men walking behind you.
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Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing especially when you are talking about living.
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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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Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.
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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.
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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.
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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 would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
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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’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.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Be the designer of your own destiny.
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Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?
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The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.
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