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Oscar de la Renta
Designer: Oscar de la Renta

• “Latex and leather: That’s what keeps Oscar de la Renta modern while maintaining his position as the godfather of uptown style.” {The Associated Press}
• “Between the opener and a lovely, embellished strapless gown (which Karlie Kloss also wore) to close out the show, we were treated to a menagerie of candy-colored day dressing, finished with girlie takes on texture.” {FabSugar}
• “Like a filmmaker or Renaissance oil painter, the mature years of de la Renta have been marked by a renewal with the avant-garde–so even though his clothes are the nearest thing there is to couture in America–they are imbued with an offbeat artistry. That’s why … every second look as dissected by, dripped with or encircled by Russian gold brooches, earrings, mini belts and tassels in some too much is never enough chutzpah.” {Fashion Wire Daily}
• “Latex, leather, and lace–three materials that can easily conjure tawdry images when left to their own devices–were made impressively pretty in Oscar de la Renta’s Spring 2013 collection.” {fashionologie}
• “Runway surprises … included a passage of four sets of evening shorts, and latex in the form of a slick red T-shirt worn with a jaunty navy blazer and thigh-slit khaki skirt. None of which will be written about in the fashion history books, but you’ve got to admire the gentleman’s moxie.” {Style.com}
• “‘What’s the mood?’ queried Oscar de la Renta backstage at his show, and laughed–’trying to make beautiful clothes!’ Oscar, of course, is not a designer who frets about arcane inspiration or agonizes over capturing the zeitgeist in cloth; he just makes beautiful clothes, beautifully, to make his pan-generational clients look and feel as good as they can. And that is no small feat.” {Vogue.com}
• “The phrase ‘timeless’ gets thrown around a lot these days, but the designer has the credentials to prove it, and his collection today–really a full wardrobe for women in the mood for some high-octane glamour–shows that only with time and hard work does one receive the high regard that he and his work merits.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “De la Renta is no punk; he was just having a little fun with a collection that was otherwise purely pretty and wonderfully grand.” {WWD}