Óscar de la Renta
Óscar de la Renta was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on July 22nd, 1932 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 82, Óscar de la Renta biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Car Arstides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932 – 20 October 2014), also known as Oscar de la Renta in the Dominican literature, was a Dominican fashion designer.
He was born in Santo Domingo and was educated by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo.
De la Renta became well-known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who styled Jacqueline Kennedy.
He worked with Lanvin and Balmain.
His eponymous fashion house has boutiques around the world, including in Harrods of London and Madison Avenue in New York.
Early life
Carmen Mara Antonia Fiallo and Puerto Rican father De La Renta, the youngest of seven children and the only boy in his family, was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Carmen Mara Fiallo, a Dominican mother of distant Portuguese ance, De la Renta, the owner of an insurance company. The Fiallos, De la Renta's mother's family, were so embedded in Dominican life that they could include poets, researchers, and businessmen as well as top army brass among their ranks. Canarian settlers can trace their origins in the island back to the foundation of San Carlos de Tenerife in 1685.
Luis Argutes Fiallo Cabral, a maternal uncle, was a doctor, advocate, and architect who received every degree that the University of Santo Domingo could have offered. Fabio Fiallo, the uncle of another maternal uncle, was a diplomat and poet. José Ortz de la Renta, the first mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, was elected by popular vote and named eight times, the most ever for the city.
De la Renta was raised Catholic in a strict family. When he was 18 years old, his mother died from multiple sclerosis complications.
He began studying painting at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid at the age of 18. He designed clothes for magazines and fashion houses to save more money. The United States returned to Francesca Lodge, the wife of John Davis Lodge, after that lodge's widow. After seeing a few of his outfit sketches, the ambassador to Spain hired de la Renta to produce a gown for her daughter. The dress appeared on the front of Life magazine this fall. He jumped into fashion design and began sketching for leading Spanish fashion houses, which led to an apprenticeship with Spain's most well-known couturier, Cristóbal Balenciaga. Cristóbal Balenciaga was his mentor, according to him. De la Renta left Spain in 1961 to join Antonio del Castillo as a couture assistant at Lanvin in Paris.
Personal life
De la Renta, a French Vogue editor-in-chief who once worked for Elsa Schiaparelli's fashion house in 1966, became the third husband of Françoise de Langlade (1921–1983). They were married before she died of cancer in 1983. de la Renta rescued a boy from the Dominican Republic and named him Moisés after his death.
Annette Engelhard (born 1939), daughter of Fritz Mannheimer and his partner Jane née Reiss, and adoptive daughter of her mother's second husband, Charles W. Engelhardt Jr., were born in 1990. Alex Bolen, his son-in-law, is now Chief Executive Officer, while Eliza Bolen, his stepdaughter, serves as Vice President of Licensing at Oscar de la Renta, LLC.
De la Renta was regarded as the Dominican Republic's unofficial ambassador, his home country, and possessed a diplomatic passport. In comparison to his home in Kent, Connecticut, he had homes in Casa de Campo and Punta Cana.
Later life and death
In 2006, De la Renta was diagnosed with cancer. Fern Mallis, the Executive Director of the CFDA "Fashion Talks" event a year ago, described him as "The Sultan of Suave." He spoke about his cancer at the time, saying, "Itay" describes him.
De la Renta died of cancer complications at his Kent, Connecticut home on October 20, 2014, at the age of 82.
Career
De la Renta's 1963 call to Diana Vreeland, editor-in-chief of Vogue, for assistance, saying that what he really wanted was to "get ready to wear" because that's where the money is located. "Then go to Arden because you will build your image faster," Vreeland replied. She is not a designer, so she will promote you. You will always be eclipsed by the name of Dior." De la Renta went to work for Arden for two years before deciding to work for Jane Derby, an American fashion house. When Derby died in August 1965, de la Renta took over the name.
de la Renta created the haute couture collection for Balmain's house from 1993 to 2002, becoming the first Dominican to plan for a French couture house. The Oscar de la Renta brand developed to bridal wear in 2006.
A large number of respected women and celebrities have worn De la Renta's styles. The De La Renta brand saw international wholesale growth beginning in 2003, under CEO Alex Bolen's leadership, from five to seventy-five locations. In his grocery stores, online, and with select wholesale partners around the world, De la Renta's ready-to-wear collections are available.
The George W. Bush Presidential Center in 2014 hosted an exhibit titled "Oscar de la Renta: Five Decades of Style" that showcased the designer's creations for Mrs. Bush and America's First Ladies.