Oscar De La Renta Quotes

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

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.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

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

My customers are successful workingwomen.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

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

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.

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

My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, 'That's what I am'

Every season I am inspired by women.

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?

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

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.

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.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

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

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

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

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

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

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

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

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

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

Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

A woman can wear anything- she can make it right.

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.

I'm a happy fellow. I feel very privileged, lucky, that I have had a wonderful life. And that I have been always allowed to do what I love.

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

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

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.

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