Oscar de la Renta. - AFP
He was a designer trusted by generations of stars, from Jackie Kennedy to Amal Clooney
THE fashion designer Oscar de la Renta arrived in New York in 1963 with letters of introduction to the editor-in-chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland, the Conde Nast magazines supremo Alex Liberman, and John Fairchild, whose family owned Women's Wear Daily. Within a day, he was offered a job designing couture for Elizabeth Arden's boutique on Fifth Avenue – she asked his price and he answered, preposterously, US$700 (RM2,300) a week.
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