Oscar de la Renta Quotes

Fashion is a trend, style is within a person.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

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.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

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.

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

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.

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

A woman today knows that the power of her femininity is very important.

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.

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?

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.

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.

The essence of style is how you live your life

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.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Style begins by looking good naked

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

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.

My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.

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.

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.

What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

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.

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.

I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

I always think the best way to dress is when the person notices you first and the dress after.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

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.

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

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.