A similar dress is available in Oscar's Spring 2015 collection: 4. At which point De la Renta sips his coffee silently. Alex and Eliza Bolen sent the following letter to the staff of Oscar de la Renta, which serves as their company statement: October 21st, 2014 Colleagues We write to let you know that Oscar. Mr. de la Renta designed a hand-embroidered silk organza dress for the bride and celadon silk gingham dresses for the flower girls. 8x10 $30.00 ORDER . Worn in a Vogue spread around the time the actress was playing Marie Antoinette, this gown symbolizes not only everything the French Renaissance was about, but also everything de la Renta was about. We all flew down to the presidential library and the show was full of exquisite, elegant de la Renta clothes worn by former First Ladies from Nancy Reagan to Laura Bush. We've lived in Illinois, Oregon, Michigan, and now the central coast of California! Thats Oscar de la Renta. Oscar de la Renta: 5 of the Designers Most Iconic Wedding Dresses. Or was this merely the crass hand of nepotism? A similar dress is available in Oscars Fall 2014 collection: When youre marrying Anna Wintours son, it doesnt make sense to wear anyone but Oscar de la Renta on your wedding day. Jenna also tweeted a photo of her wedding dress sketch along with a loving tribute to Oscar: Kate married director Michael Polish in a gorgeous Montana ranch weddinglast year, so it was only appropriate that Oscar created a simple and stunning ivoryball gownfor the actress with a 16-foot wide and 8-foot long train. I spent Thanksgiving with him, about eight or nine years ago, just the three of us and his son Moises in Kent, Connecticut. They are more of a hassle to deal with than anything else, he says. In 1967, de Renta got married to Francoise de Langlade, who was an editor-in-chief of French Vogue. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red. Oscar de La Renta Remembered by Anna Wintour, the Clintons and More - E He also won the Coty Award for his Road of Spices collection that he launched in that year. The exhibition will be on display until May 3, and if you get the chance to see the exhibit do it. It was her third marriage and the marriage ended when she died in 1983 due to cancer. I photograph babies, kiddos, and the tall people who take care of them. In those daysthe seventiesOscar and Franoise were the Social Lions of New York. Moises has always needed a lot of help, which you can get in school, but once you get to college, you have to seek that help; it doesnt come to you, De la Renta says at Michaels. One can be sure that Oscar de la Renta, the most gentlemanly of designers, made all of the brides he dressed feel like princesseswhether they were household names, like Amal Clooney and Amanda Peet, or not. He was then wed to his first wife, Franoise de Langlade, a former French Vogue editor-in-chief. A lot of what youre seeing with Oscar has to do with Alex coming onboard, says Wintour. And so, perhaps, this is my time.. She thought there was no need to. Oscar began his iconic bridal line in 2006 and told uslast year, Remember that your opinion is the only one that matters when it comes to what you are going to wear. That and have a confident walk on your wedding day and always.. Country music ~on repeat all day, err day, Exploring the outdoors ~ my own self-therapy, Halloween ~free candy & playing dress up?! In 1980, the metaphysics of the De la Rentas dinner parties were deconstructed in The New York Times Magazine, in an article that deemed their home a latter-day salon with influence on the New YorkWashington axis. To many, Franoise, who played no formal role in the company, was the secret weapon to De la Rentas successforging many of the relationships that created his deep foundation in society.