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FASHION DESIGNER

Oscar de la Renta

1932 - 2014

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Óscar Arístides Renta Fiallo (22 July 1932 – 20 October 2014), known professionally as Oscar de la Renta, was a Dominican fashion designer. Born in Santo Domingo, he was trained by Cristóbal Balenciaga and Antonio del Castillo. De la Renta became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oscar de la Renta has received more than 1,670,465 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 32 in 2019). Oscar de la Renta is the 21st most popular fashion designer (down from 18th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Dominican Republic and the most popular Dominican Fashion Designer.

Oscar de la Renta is most famous for his evening wear.

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS

Among fashion designers, Oscar de la Renta ranks 21 out of 38Before him are Kenzō Takada, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Roberto Cavalli, Yohji Yamamoto, and Tom Ford. After him are Paul Poiret, Vera Wang, Christian Lacroix, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, and Charles Frederick Worth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Oscar de la Renta ranks 79Before him are Naina Yeltsina, Fernando Arrabal, Emmanuelle Arsan, Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Shintaro Ishihara, and Michael Smith. After him are Joe Zawinul, Dieter Rams, Quino, Hiroaki Sato, Antonio Tejero, and Stuart Hall. Among people deceased in 2014, Oscar de la Renta ranks 53Before him are James Garner, Ernesto Laclau, Gyula Grosics, Hans Hollein, Gerald Edelman, and Dale T. Mortensen. After him are Yozo Aoki, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Gottfried John, Miklós Jancsó, Ralph H. Baer, and B. K. S. Iyengar.

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In Dominican Republic

Among people born in Dominican Republic, Oscar de la Renta ranks 2 out of 47Before him are Rafael Trujillo (1891). After him are Théodore Chassériau (1819), Hatuey (1478), Joaquín Balaguer (1906), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Juan Bosch (1909), Maria Montez (1912), Danilo Medina (1951), Leonel Fernández (1953), Máximo Gómez (1836), and Héctor Trujillo (1908).

Among FASHION DESIGNERS In Dominican Republic

Among fashion designers born in Dominican Republic, Oscar de la Renta ranks 1