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Endpoint: Oscar de la Renta (Person)



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created on: 15/06/2022
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Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - 20 October 2014, Kent, Connecticut, U.S. (aged 82)), known professionally as Oscar de la Renta, was a Dominican fashion designer.

Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. He worked for Lanvin and Balmain. His eponymous fashion house has boutiques around the world including in Harrods of London and Madison Avenue in New York.

At the age of 18, he went to study painting in Spain at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. For extra money, he drew clothes for newspapers and fashion houses which soon led to an apprenticeship with Spain's most renowned couturier, Cristóbal Balenciaga.

In 1961, de la Renta left Spain to join Antonio del Castillo as a couture assistant at Lanvin in Paris.

De la Renta proceeded to work for Arden for two years in New York City before he went to work for Jane Derby, an American fashion house. When Derby died in August 1965, de la Renta took over the label.

From 1993 to 2002, de la Renta designed the haute couture collection for the house of Balmain, becoming the first Dominican to design for a French couture house.

In 1966, de la Renta became the third husband of Françoise de Langlade (1921–1983), an editor-in-chief of French Vogue who once worked for the fashion house of Elsa Schiaparelli. They were married until she died of cancer in 1983.

In 1990, the designer married Annette Engelhard (born 1939), daughter of Fritz Mannheimer and his wife Jane née Reiss, and adoptive daughter of her mother's second husband, Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. De la Renta had stepchildren from both marriages. His son-in-law Alex Bolen currently operates as Chief Executive Officer, and stepdaughter Eliza Bolen serves as Vice President of Licensing at Oscar de la Renta LLC.

De la Renta was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. De la Renta died of complications from cancer on October 20, 2014, at his home in Kent, Connecticut, at the age of 82.
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Married to [1966 - 1983 (her death)] : Françoise de Langlade
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Founder of : Oscar de la Renta LLC
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Submitted by : bob (9218)
on : 15/06/2022
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Last updated on: 16/06/2022