The legendary fashion designer was diagnosed with cancer in 2006,however the cause of death
is yet to be revealed. Dela Renta first came to prominence designing clothes for Jackie Kennedy.
Most recently he designed Amal Clooney's wedding dress.He was seen last month at New York
Fashion Week.and was revered by a host of A-list celeberities including Sara Jessica Parker.
New York News,Oscar de la Renta ,the worldly gentlemen designer who shapedrobe of socialites
and Hollywood star for more than four decades has died,he was 82.
The late "60"s and early 70's were a defining moment in US fashion as New York based designers
finnaly caeved alook of their own that was taken seriously by Europeans. De La Renta and his
peers,including the late Bill Blass,Roy Halston an Geoffry Beene.
De La Renta gave up the tittle of chief executive of his company in 2004 handing over business
duties to step daughter Eliza Bolen and her husband ,but he remained active on the design end
continuing to show his collections during New York Fashion Week.
De La Renta also survived by an adopted son ,Moises,a designer at the company.
De La Renta first wife French Vogue editor Francoise de Langlade died in 1983.
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