Top 90 Oscar de la Renta Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

52. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

53. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

54. “My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am’”

— Oscar de la Renta

55. “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?”

— Oscar de la Renta

56. “Women are born free, and I think that they should stay that way.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

58. “The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

60. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

61. “I adore gardening, and whenever I have time off, that is my passion.”

— Oscar de la Renta

62. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

63. “Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

66. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

68. “I’m a very restless person. I’m always doing something. The creative process never stops.”

— Oscar de la Renta

69. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

71. “I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.”

— Oscar de la Renta

72. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

73. “It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman.”

— Oscar de la Renta

74. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

75. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

76. “I don’t really know how to do casual clothes.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

78. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

80. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

82. “Every season I am inspired by women.”

— Oscar de la Renta

83. “Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

85. “Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great – besides me, of course.”

— Oscar de la Renta

86. “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.”

— Oscar de la Renta

87. “Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.”

— Oscar de la Renta

88. “My beloved Hillary, do not disappoint me. You have to be President, OK?”

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta

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

— Oscar de la Renta