Oscar de la Renta
Anna Wintour's Favorite Dress Reemerges at Fashion Week
Remember that turquoise Oscar de la Renta dress that Anna Wintour wore to the U.S. Open, and Tommy Hilfiger's engagement party, and the Sex and the City premiere?
Well, it's back! The lovely dress reappeared when Ms. Wintour sat in the front row of the Phillip Lim show on Wednesday and Mr. de la Renta's show right afterwards. And, we must say, the color really does bring out her eyes when they're not shielded by huge Chanel sunglasses!
Perhaps Ms. Wintour is making an environmental statement about so-called "disposable fashion" (in other words, the mounds of clothes from H&M and Forever 21 in our closets?). In any case, if she paid for the dress (unlikely), she's getting her money's worth, and if Mr. de la Renta gave her the dress (likely!), he has certainly gotten his money's worth.
Anna Wintour's Favorite Dress
Perhaps Anna Wintour has been so busy organizing fund-raisers that she has sort of dropped the ball on maintaining the image of the fashion editor whose closet is supposed to be the size of France and who would never disappoint her trembling fans by wearing the same dress twice. (At least not in the same country--same rules as cheating on your wife apply.)
But the woman who is supposed to be fashion perfection has worn the same turquoise Oscar de la Renta Resort '09 dress three times since May! And in public! Where paparazzi were lurking!
She debuted it at an after-party for the premiere of Sex and the City in May, and has since worn the belted dress, which falls a touch below the knee, to Tommy Hilfiger's engagement party in June with nude-colored heels. read more »
Moises in the Promised Land
adopted son Moises de la Renta at the Met's
Costume Institute Gala last spring, with
socialite-stylist Greer Simpkins.
It was the summer of 1984. A few nuns were strolling the streets of La Romana, a resort town in the Dominican Republic, when they heard a baby’s screams coming from a dumpster. The news soon reached the bronzed ears of the city’s most renowned resident, Oscar de la Renta, who at the time was mourning the death of his first wife.
On a recent Thursday afternoon, Moises Oscar de la Renta, now 24, picked me up in a Lincoln Town Car he had hired to run some last-minute errands in preparation for a camping trip he was taking that weekend with two attractive young women. read more »
Oscar de la Renta Warms Fall Fashion, Anna Wintour
It’s springtime for Oscar in autumn! We just came from Oscar de la Renta’s Pre-Fall 2008 show, held in an old church on Park Avenue and 63rd Street. It seems even Old School fashion bigwigs like Mr. De la Renta are starting to acknowledge the fact that balmy temps can, these days, extend well into November.
Sure, there were plenty of black cashmere sweaters, dark brown suede boots, tortoiseshell patent clutches and sepia wool faille jackets to whet the appetites of onlookers like Vogue’s Anna Wintour and, a few seats to her left, Teen Vogue’s Amy Astley. But what really drew a few wide-eyed gasps—and a lone clap—from the modish onlookers was the abundance of color. Bright color—in floral, sequined prints, no less! Circumambulating one another in figure-eights and cockeyed circles, tall models (in even taller boots) stomped around the platter-shaped runway as if in some nightmare runway challenge on ANTM. At least their floral cloqué brocade skirts, harlequin ribbon belts, plum silk georgette dresses and emerald silk hammered satin gowns made it easy to avoid an eminent collision.
Continue reading after the jump. read more »
Hey, Hey, It’s the CFDA’s! Oprah … Uma … and Oscar de la Renta!
“When the dress arrived, I said, ‘I’m going to have to name her,’” Oprah Winfrey told the crowd at the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s annual awards at the New York Public Library on Monday, June 4, speaking of the ankle-length pink wrap ball gown that designer Ralph Lauren had created specifically for Ms. Winfrey to present him with the American Fashion Legend Award. read more »
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Roger Federer & Anna Wintour, Oscar de la Renta, 9/11/06.
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Today At The Shows: Paris Hilton, Donald Trump, and... Kelly Osbourne?
Today, our own intrepid photographer ventured here and there between the "Virgin Vines" event, Oscar de la Renta, the Sony lounge, Charles Nolan, and all about the Tents of Shame. Even the pre-teens have their model-faces on, apparently. read more »
Under De La Renta
The stunning Park Avenue co-op apartment underneath fashion icon Oscar de la Renta's apartment is now back on the market.
The Observer reported in late March that the 4,600-square-foot residence was under contract. But the pesky co-op board squashed the deal, according to a top Upper East Side source.
In the early 1980's, former Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos reportedly desired the co-op's lavish 21-room triplex maisonette before running into difficulties with the board. read more »
The 11-room spread (powder room and all) is available once again for $12.5 million, listed with Amanda Cannon and Cornelia Zagat Eland of Stribling and Associates.
- Michael Calderone
