Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta ( born July 22, 1932 in Santo Domingo as Oscar Aristides Renta Fiallo Ortiz ) is an American- Dominican fashion designer who is counted by fashion critics the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century.
De la Renta was born in the Dominican Republic. At the age of 18 he emigrated to Spain where he studied painting in Madrid at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He turned away from the mid-1950s, however, very quickly to the design of women's fashion. In 1957 he got a job at Eisa in Madrid, the couture studio of the major Spanish fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga. De la Renta describes his time at Balenciaga as the best fashion school that he could visit. After Design Offered by Dior and Lanvin sat de la Renta his work from 1960 in Paris, where he worked as a fashion assistant for Lanvin at Antonio Castillo. His learned Balenciaga style he maintained in Paris.
After de la Rentas moving to New York in 1963, he worked for Elizabeth Arden and the fashion company Jane Derby. The experience he gained there helped him in 1967 to create his own brand of clothing and perfume under the name Oscar de la Renta. Just two years later sold de la Renta his young company to the Fashion Group International Richton, but stayed on as chief designer at the company. In 1970, he launched under his name menswear. 1973 de la Renta was appointed for three years as chairman of the influential American Fashion Association CFDA. 1974 buys de la Renta his company of Richton International back. In 1976, the youthful Miss O line added to the de la Renta range. In 1977, the first perfume of the house was put on the market; Since then, numerous fragrances are published. From 1987 to 1989 de la Renta was again before the CFDA as president. In the late 1980s, the enterprise value of the Oscar la Renta has been estimated at half a billion U.S. dollars. He was appointed artistic director of the Paris fashion house Balmain in 1992, he withdrew from two years prior to its bankruptcy in 2002 and. In 1995, the portfolio was expanded to include the Oscar by Oscar de la Renta second-line, 2002 Design furniture, 2003 by bridal store. 2004, the diffusion line O Oscar was launched and opened a flagship store on Madison Avenue in New York City. There are also Oscar de la Renta stores including in Punta Cana, Dubai and Riyadh.
The fashion of the house is now sold exclusively under the name Oscar de la Renta for women and children. The high-priced ladies ' fashions at the New York Fashion Week on the runway. The second-line and men's fashion ( with the exception of a license line) have been set. Only the sub-brand Pink Label for lingerie still exists. Certain degree of fame helped de la Renta, the fact that he clothed important personalities such as Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush.
1967 married Oscar de la Renta Françoise de Langlade ( 1931-1983 ), Editorin in the French edition of Vogue. In 1984, he adopted a son, Moises. His second wife married de la Renta in 1989, the designer Annette Reed ( born 1939 ). From two marriages he has stepchildren. Since 1969, de la Renta is next to the possession of a Dominican passport and a U.S. citizen. In the years 1990 ( life's work ), 2000 ( women's fashion ), 2007 ( women's fashion ) and 2013 ( Founders Award ), he was awarded the CFDA awards.