{"id":76,"date":"2014-10-26T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/26\/designer-to-the-stars\/"},"modified":"2014-10-26T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:46:00","slug":"designer-to-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/designer-to-the-stars.html","title":{"rendered":"Designer to the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Tribute to Oscar de la Renta<\/span><\/div>\n
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This week there have been many tributes to couturier Oscar de la Renta, who died Oct.20, at the age of 82,  and I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t join the accolades.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There have been many fashion designers who have established their place in fashion history: Fortuny, Dior, Channel, Schiparelli.  One must include in this pantheon  Oscar de la Renta.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Born July, 22, 1932 in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, Oscar de la Renta began his career in Spain where he studied painting.  For added income, he drew sketches of fashion clothing for newspapers and magazines and after one of his sketches was featured on the cover of Life magazine, he turned to design, apprenticing with the famous House of Balenciaga.  He then worked for design houses in Europe and New York.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He was the winner  of many awards, including the coveted Coty Award and was inducted into the Coty Hall of Fame in 1973.<\/span><\/div>\n
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While he was best known as \u201cdesigner to the rich and famous\u201d creating fabulous gowns for such clients as Jackie O and wives of American presidents ( his last creation was worn as a wedding dress by Amal Alamuddin) he also designed clothing appropriate for a business meeting or luncheon date.  He diversified his business into fragrance (\u201dOscar\u201d), and a line of accessories and housewares.  His moderately priced ready-to-wear clothing is available at his retail stores and other retail outlets such as Neiman Marcus and online.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He once said \u201c fashion is a trend, style is within a person\u201d.  That is the genius of the great designers, that their creations are timeless and wearing their designs make their clients feel confident and beautiful inside and out.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This week is also Halloween.  \u201cListen to them- the children of the night.  What music they make.\u201d  Dracula, by Bram Stoker, 1897 <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Tribute to Oscar de la Renta This week there have been many tributes to couturier Oscar de la Renta, who died Oct.20, at the age of 82,  and I would be remiss if I didn\u2019t join the accolades. There have been many fashion designers who have established their place in fashion history: Fortuny, Dior,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}