Fashion Legend Oscar de la Renta Is Dead at 82

Oscar de la Renta, a fixture in American fashion who designed evening wear for first ladies and Hollywood starlets alike, has died. He was 82 years old.
De la Renta had been battling cancer for the last 10 years and finally succumbed to the disease on Monday, his wife, Annette de la Renta, confirmed to the New York Times.
A noted designer since the middle of the century, De la Renta was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932. He moved to Madrid in the '50s to study art and apprenticed there with another fashion icon, Cristobal Balenciaga. From there, the designer moved to Paris to work for Antonio del Castillo at Lanvin and, by 1963, was working for Elizabeth Arden in New York.

He rose to fame in the 1960s by dressing Jackie Kennedy and launched his line in 1965. Since then, former first ladies Nancy Regan, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton have all worn his designs. Current First Lady Michelle Obama wore one of his dresses for the first time earlier this month at a cocktail party
De la Renta was given a lifetime achievement award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1989.
More recently, he designed Amal Alamuddin's dress for her wedding to George Clooney in Venice, Italy, in September. “George and I wanted a wedding that was romantic and elegant, and I can’t imagine anyone more able than Oscar to capture this mood in a dress,” Alamuddin told Vogue magazine that month. Few pics of some of his designs below