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DE LA RENTA “ I believe that my sole purpose as a designer is to create something that I think a woman would want to wear.” −OSCAR DE LA RENTA explained to The Huffington Post. “Oscar could do it all — whatever was the most fashionable at the moment, he’d do it with his distinctive flair and eye for aesthetics.” Like a story out of a fashion fairy tale, on his very first night in Manhattan, de la Renta met cosmetics mogul Elizabeth Arden, who offered him a job the following morning designing haute couture gowns for her design house. Two years later, he started his own collection bearing his name. His legendary status doesn’t end there — in fact, it was just building. In 1973, he represented the United States as one of five designers at the notorious “Battle of Versailles” fashion show, a competition between French and American designers. De la Renta and the other Americans were a sensation, challenging old-world European haute couture with their readyto-wear designs. clothes during that time reflected American might and confidence. “In the eighties, it was back into rich, opulent clothes, which were my thing,” he’s said. After the 1980s, the designer was always forward-thinking though, especially when it came to looking to diverse cultures for inspiration, including Chinese embroideries, Indian textiles, Uzbek and Kazakh ikat-patterned cloths, Japanese woodblock prints,and traditional Russian fabrics and ornamentation. “Today, people — clothes — are international. Frontiers are non-existent,” de la Renta says. His sentiments, like his clothes, feel eternally modern yet timeless. “Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective” presents the life and legacy of a man who loved life and encourages you to celebrate it, too. With the show’s lush exuberance, it’s an invitation that’s hard to resist. With a career-long retrospective, it’s easy to see that the 1980s were the designer’s spiritual and aesthetic home. His bold ARTICLE BY TRICIA TONGCO 12
DE LA RENTA Photo courtesy of The Huffington Post. Amal Alamuddin at her final fitting with Oscar de la Renta, 2014. Photo courtesy of ABCNews. 13
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