Oscar de la Renta “It’s not about what you wear, but how you live your life.”

 Oscar de la Renta:  1932 to 2014.

“You have to walk like you have three men walking behind you.”

“Style begins by looking good naked. It’s a discipline. And if you don’t dress well every day, you lose the habit.

“Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.”

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

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

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

“The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.”

“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.”

“My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.”

“The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever.”

“The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning [cancer] is how you appreciate every single day of life.”

“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.”

“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”

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

 Anna Wintour remembers oscar de la Renta : read here at Vogue.