Sultan Of Suave,Oscar de la Renta, dies at 82

Kent, Connecticut: Oscar de la Renta,acclaimed Dominican-American legendary fashion designer,who spent half a century putting high society in haute couture, died on Oct. 20,2014 at his home in Kent. He was 82. He was best known as Sultan Of Suave .

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Name              : Oscar Aristides de la Renta Fiallo

Age                 : 82 (Jul.22,1932 - Oct. 20, 2014)

Family            : 1st wife - Françoise de Langlade (married 1967; her death 1983);

                          2nd wife - Annette de la Renta (married 1989 ; his death 2014)

                                           

Achievement  :Design Award
                       Coty Award(1967 and 1968)
                       Coty Hall of Fame(1973)
                       Council of Fashion Designers Designer of the Year Award (2000 and 2007)
                       CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award (1990)

                       

Order of Civil Merit

                       Gold Medal of Bellas Artes & La Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil
                       by King Juan Carlos of Spain

                       

Legion of Honour

                       Legion d'honneur as a Commandeur by French government
                       Other Award
                       International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame (1973)

                       

Ribbon bar of the order

                       Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella & the Order of Christopher Columbus
                       by Dominican Republic
                       Casa del Niño orphanage in La Romana (Founder)
                       Ambassador-at-Large of the Dominican Republic
                       Queen Sofia Spanish Institute (Chairman)

Fashion Collections

Reactions of Oscar de la Renta Towards Cancer.....      

      "Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. 
The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. 
We always think we are going to live forever. 
The dying aspect we will never accept. 
The one thing about having this kind of warning is
 how you appreciate every single day of life ". 

—By Oscar de la Renta,2006 at CFDA

       

Reactions to Oscar de la Renta's Death.....

 "We will always remember him as the man
who made women look and feel beautiful". 

—By Laura Bush,former first lady

"He was a true,true gentlemen,in the truest sense of the
word--a real bright light--and this is just a terrible,
terrible loss for the fashion world"

—Alina Cho,fashion journalist & editor at Random House