We are now featuring the Great Icon of High 'Couture' Fashion OSCAR DE LA RENTA, each garment besides being a great fashion masterpiece could also be used by the Fashion World for instruction or inspiration. To say 'Oscar De La Renta' is to say 'Fashion'. A woman wearing one of Oscar's garments is transformed into a woman of beauty all spotlights are on her and she feels like the most important person in the world at that time.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA
Óscar de la Renta at the Hotel Ritz, Madrid during a visit to Spain in 2008
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The World of Fashion in Vogue
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“Sultan of Suave,” “Couture Conquistador,” and “Guru of Glamour” are but three of the complimentary (and catchy) things the award-winning and debonair designer Oscar de la Renta has been called in the course of his long and starry career. It began in Spain, chez Cristóbal Balenciaga, traversed Paris (where he worked at Lanvin, and landed him—with an armful of letters of introduction—in New York in 1963. There, he was heralded, as the journalist Alice Hughes noted in 1967, as “a comet on the American style scene,” because he moved about “in swift, and remarkably high circles for so young a man.”
One of the “Beautiful People” tracked by Vogue for his own mode of living, de la Renta is intimately acquainted with the lifestyle of those pillars of high society who are his core clientele. He is one of them. “Oscar,” said the golden girl C.Z. Guest, “doesn’t even understand what bad taste is.” Vogue’s editor in chief, Anna Wintour, echoed that sentiment when she told the Associated Press in 2004, “Everything Oscar does is feminine, romantic, and appropriate ……
Oscar de la Renta
RESORT 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
SPRING 2014
Vogue
by Hamish Bowles
by Hamish Bowles
The Oscar de la Rentas’ magnificent Park Avenue drawing room is dominated by a brace of Jacobean portraits of the Fitton sisters—It girls of the seventeenth century—that once hung in the houses of the legendary decorator Nancy Lancaster. “One was supposed to be [Shakespeare’s] Dark Lady of the Sonnets,” 'Oscar' told me. “They were very ‘social,’ ” he added with a chuckle, “and they did not restrict their romances to their husbands!” The magnificent embroideries of their dresses set Oscar thinking—and happily the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace held a superb exhibition over the summer that matched Tudor and Stuart swagger portraits to miraculously preserved contemporary clothing, providing further inspiration points.
So whilst Oscar opened his show with chic, long-line ensembles in crisp navy or black double-face, reversing to houndstooth, that had a dashing mid-century Dior flavor to them, he soon began to weave in subtle modern echoes of those motifs of Elizabethan lace and crewelwork embroideries that were never, in his practiced hands, remotely costume-y. They might be used as dramatic silhouette prints, for instance—or in accents such as a thick cotton lace fall collar that gave a Charles I flourish to a crisp black-and-white-check cardigan jacket.
An ivory knit miniskirt and short-sleeved sweater were featured with pearl-edged slashed openwork embroidery—a detail that might have been taken from one of Elizabeth I’s dresses, but looked glamorously hip in this reimagined context. There was also a flurry of pretty whitework and eyelet dresses fit for a Picnic at Hanging Rock, and full-skirted dresses (or swinging skirts with fluttery blouses) fashioned for a fifties debutante (accessorized with delightful flower brooches, short gloves, and vibrantly contrasting satin heels) in scintillating colors such as duck-egg blue, pistachio, and bright coral, or in black-and-white polka dots dotted with bright-colored flowers.
Oscar’s ball dresses are nonpareil—black tulle scattered with meadow flowers and flourished with a mantilla, for instance, or a froth of strapless coral taffeta over an explosion of silk tulle. And there were, of course, the simply magnificent embroideries at which he excels—this season including lavish silk floss work shadowed with block prints that the Fitton sisters themselves might have swooned over.
So whilst Oscar opened his show with chic, long-line ensembles in crisp navy or black double-face, reversing to houndstooth, that had a dashing mid-century Dior flavor to them, he soon began to weave in subtle modern echoes of those motifs of Elizabethan lace and crewelwork embroideries that were never, in his practiced hands, remotely costume-y. They might be used as dramatic silhouette prints, for instance—or in accents such as a thick cotton lace fall collar that gave a Charles I flourish to a crisp black-and-white-check cardigan jacket.
An ivory knit miniskirt and short-sleeved sweater were featured with pearl-edged slashed openwork embroidery—a detail that might have been taken from one of Elizabeth I’s dresses, but looked glamorously hip in this reimagined context. There was also a flurry of pretty whitework and eyelet dresses fit for a Picnic at Hanging Rock, and full-skirted dresses (or swinging skirts with fluttery blouses) fashioned for a fifties debutante (accessorized with delightful flower brooches, short gloves, and vibrantly contrasting satin heels) in scintillating colors such as duck-egg blue, pistachio, and bright coral, or in black-and-white polka dots dotted with bright-colored flowers.
Oscar’s ball dresses are nonpareil—black tulle scattered with meadow flowers and flourished with a mantilla, for instance, or a froth of strapless coral taffeta over an explosion of silk tulle. And there were, of course, the simply magnificent embroideries at which he excels—this season including lavish silk floss work shadowed with block prints that the Fitton sisters themselves might have swooned over.
Oscar de la Renta
SPRING 2014
Photo: Marcus Tondo/Indigitalimages.com
Oscar de la Renta
PRE-FALL 2014
Photo: Courtesy of Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
FALL 2014
Oscar de la Renta / Resort 2015
by Emily Holt
Something about being around Oscar de la Renta puts you in a mind-set of ageless elegance not unlike a Cary Grant film. Somehow you feel lifted, lighter, and, like a pretty dress, as if you can solve sort of anything.
At least that’s how it seemed at the designer’s recent resort presentation. De la Renta showed six groups of looks ranging from lunchtime attire, a youthful, black and white dot skirt suit; to cocktail, a stunning aquamarine silk faille dress with bright floral embroidery; to black tie, a knockout floral column with a dramatic pink bow at the back that trailed to the floor. (Aside: If we didn’t have de la Renta to turn to for major evening, we’d be sunk.) The pretty, sheer black lace numbers and cute short-sleeved dresses with a cropped top layer and above-the-knee skirt were signature de la Renta ease and sophistication, too. These are clothes for the good life, to be sure, but they refrain from feeling out-of-touch with reality. Instead, they evoke something more akin to finding joy and optimism in the present moment. And there’s nothing that’s more timeless than that.
At least that’s how it seemed at the designer’s recent resort presentation. De la Renta showed six groups of looks ranging from lunchtime attire, a youthful, black and white dot skirt suit; to cocktail, a stunning aquamarine silk faille dress with bright floral embroidery; to black tie, a knockout floral column with a dramatic pink bow at the back that trailed to the floor. (Aside: If we didn’t have de la Renta to turn to for major evening, we’d be sunk.) The pretty, sheer black lace numbers and cute short-sleeved dresses with a cropped top layer and above-the-knee skirt were signature de la Renta ease and sophistication, too. These are clothes for the good life, to be sure, but they refrain from feeling out-of-touch with reality. Instead, they evoke something more akin to finding joy and optimism in the present moment. And there’s nothing that’s more timeless than that.
Oscar de la Renta
Resort 2015 (Bonus)
Photo: Courtesy of Oscar de la Renta
“Walk like you have three men walking behind you.”
― Oscar de la Renta
Oscar is certainly the “Guru of Elegance and Glamor” in the Fashion World. Oscar de la Renta's core clientele is made up of First Ladies, Movie Stars and the pillars of high society all over the Globe. It is such a Joy and a Learning experience to relax and let our creative juices flow as we view his collections. Another great one Fashionistas, let us sit and digest such talent as we relax in our Fashion Lounge. XO
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