Goodbye Oscar de la Renta

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Just last week I wrote a blogpost archiving some of designer Oscar de la Renta's <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://corinnabsworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/oscar-de-la-renta-vogue-archives.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">magnificent moments in Vogue Magazine</span></a><i>.(</i><span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://corinnabsworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/oscar-de-la-renta-vogue-archives.html" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">linked here</span>)</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best"</i></span><br />Oscar de la Renta<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc10_QvSpHONysu_ZEAQ9WPhcXUjCteWMOoH8H1Izvm3B0eMi0CAAday8MSPUVL14W2iqm4b_aX61P3HT8aMjhPwv4YTFhNQOps9E1-2mLbIb-SGuUN0uTR3ZlMoBDsrcSSOSs7m2mOfE/s1600/oscar+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Oscar-de-la-Renta-rest-in-peace" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc10_QvSpHONysu_ZEAQ9WPhcXUjCteWMOoH8H1Izvm3B0eMi0CAAday8MSPUVL14W2iqm4b_aX61P3HT8aMjhPwv4YTFhNQOps9E1-2mLbIb-SGuUN0uTR3ZlMoBDsrcSSOSs7m2mOfE/s1600/oscar+1.jpg" title="Oscar-de-la-Renta-rest-in-peace" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I was terribly saddened to hear of his passing at age 82.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Dominican born Oscar de la Renta spent half a century dressing the most glamorous women in the world.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">De la Renta apprenticed for Cristobal Balenciage in Spain, and then Lanvin and Balmain in Paris before launching his own line in 1965.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">An arbiter of style and timeless elegance, de la Renta's gowns were both a fixture on the red carpet, and also at the White House. He  was the only designer to have dressed every first lady from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLP6bDLD-5Rwx9HfgJldefb7ENm8c8YgAwVR9DNQqezF4_83-FNap3wjieBE_v5Xiws92ysJ-YGSCoUH4jxq5lJeiDTqTvDdHjk3byUvr9FhV3izVwXEb6dfU_GPzegl7oCwwmylPnzx4/s1600/oscar+d+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Amal-Alamuddin-Oscar-de-la-Renta-wedding-dress" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLP6bDLD-5Rwx9HfgJldefb7ENm8c8YgAwVR9DNQqezF4_83-FNap3wjieBE_v5Xiws92ysJ-YGSCoUH4jxq5lJeiDTqTvDdHjk3byUvr9FhV3izVwXEb6dfU_GPzegl7oCwwmylPnzx4/s1600/oscar+d+4.jpg" title="Amal-Alamuddin-Oscar-de-la-Renta-wedding-dress" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">More recently he designed the wedding dress of <b>George Clooney'</b>s bride, <a href="http://www.vogue.com/2041281/amal-alamuddin-wedding-dress-oscar-de-la-renta/" target="_blank">Amal Alamuddin</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Never one to fall into the extremism of the fashion industry, </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">De la Renta famously said "<i>I'm not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes".</i></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEWLRXNMTx4BFYbSNBEbrhyphenhyphenNapLPjf8yGPaS3KAnbIERe8EUS9rKYdc2bHTOdSTKyYeAw-yi3qyhZ6RCOlCw32sWx150LBxRVLa62Pt1NcyjIYvHN-SRyvvEfNFtyMKjxH-yj_HVbqrI/s1600/oscar+d+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Oscar-de-la-Renta-Fall-2012" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEWLRXNMTx4BFYbSNBEbrhyphenhyphenNapLPjf8yGPaS3KAnbIERe8EUS9rKYdc2bHTOdSTKyYeAw-yi3qyhZ6RCOlCw32sWx150LBxRVLa62Pt1NcyjIYvHN-SRyvvEfNFtyMKjxH-yj_HVbqrI/s1600/oscar+d+2.jpg" title="Oscar-de-la-Renta-Fall-2012" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHjRbNk4VJDvmX1Un8q8AykiHp7_O7lqTGNzBRcbiSg0zeKLswnAZq-065A94lDkNqmyzOR1NzjZjZ70Hju_fuyvAoyzx5Hnm4DIvBry3jK5VKWBqagwEZW76yrmYEFEnGLhWDSu9XDM/s1600/oscar+d+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Oscar-de-la-Renta-Spring-2013" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHjRbNk4VJDvmX1Un8q8AykiHp7_O7lqTGNzBRcbiSg0zeKLswnAZq-065A94lDkNqmyzOR1NzjZjZ70Hju_fuyvAoyzx5Hnm4DIvBry3jK5VKWBqagwEZW76yrmYEFEnGLhWDSu9XDM/s1600/oscar+d+3.jpg" title="Oscar-de-la-Renta-Spring-2013" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And how incredibly beautiful his clothes always were.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Recently he helped Vogue editor <b>Anna Wintour</b> in her efforts to rehabilitate the career of fashion genius <a href="http://corinnabsworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/john-galliano-named-creative-director.html" target="_blank">John Galliano</a>. ( read about it <i><a href="http://corinnabsworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/john-galliano-named-creative-director.html" target="_blank">here</a></i>)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The passing of Oscar de la Renta is a major loss to the fashion industry, and to women all over the world who love beautiful clothes.</span></div>

Goodbye Oscar de la Renta

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