Oscar De La Renta Essay

Oscar de la Renta’s Childhood and Journey to Happiness
On July 22, 1932,s one of the world’s most renowned fashion designers, Oscar de la Renta, was born to his parents Carmen Maria Antonia Fiallo and Oscar Avelino Renta in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. De la Renta is the eldest and the only boy of seven children. Despite living in a politically corrupt country, Oscar lived a relatively happy life in a financially secured and overprotective Catholic family. The only bad thing la Renta complained about his childhood was the terrible clothing they wore. According to the Google eBook, “Oscar de la Renta” by EPUB 2-3, Oscar de la Renta disliked having to wear a uniform when he attended the Escuela Normal elementary school. He especially

His dresses, which were often with floral patterns, bright colors coming from his dearly beloved birthplace, the Dominican Republic, and the common embroidering influenced from Spain, were all brought together to make a unique piece that expresses the true power behind women. Oscar evidently answered to John Heilpern’s question of what is the difference between fashion and style: “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself,” (Heilpern, September 2009). For women all around the world, Oscar made that possible. Working women often wear his clothes, not only for the aesthetic value of wearing designer clothes, but to feel the radiance and power they obtain. Recently, on October 20, 2014, Oscar de la Renta died after a long battle of Cancer. Sarah Jessica responded to his death by declaring, “There are wonderfully talented designers, emerging and upperclassmen, but he really was singular, and he has left a vacuum,” (‘Sarah Jessica Parker: A Personal Tribute to Oscar de la Renta,’ October 2014). I think what is meant by this is that for 50 whole years, Oscar brought many styles to the surface and held an originality that many cannot. Oscar has influenced generation after generation to look around themselves and improve on not only your appearance, but on diminishing your insecurities and becoming successful. Clothes, specifically Oscar’s clothes, really hold the power to make you successful in life by changing your mentality to one more determined and ambitious. Designing is art, and art is meaningful. Art expresses the feelings of someone, it is not meant to simply entertain. Oscar de la Renta’s clothes could be depicted of it to be aesthetically done, but if you look between each little thread, instantly you know the dress was meant to outshine every feeling there possibly