Top 24 Quotes by Oscar de la Renta

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

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

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

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

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

I don't really know how to do casual clothes.

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

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.