{"id":33651,"date":"2014-10-23T14:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=33651"},"modified":"2014-10-23T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:58:36","slug":"dominican-born-icon-oscar-de-la-renta-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=33651","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Born Icon, Oscar de la Renta Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[google-translator]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar de la Renta<\/strong> \u2014 an icon of the fashion world who dressed royals and celebrities \u2014 has died at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>The famed designer, who created a global empire with his formal wear and evening gowns, died Monday at his home in Connecticut after a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the Dominican Republic, the designer came into the public spotlight during the 1960s while dressing First Lady <strong>Jackie Kennedy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>De la Renta<\/strong> was well-known for his elegant red-carpet gowns, which were worn by stars such as <strong>Cameron Diaz, Kristen Stewart<\/strong> and <strong>Penelope Cruz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A skilled craftsman, he recently appeared in a Vogue fashion spread with <strong>George Clooney\u2019s<\/strong> wife,\u00a0<strong>Amal<\/strong>, who was wearing his stunning white lace wedding gown.<\/p>\n<p>He became a U.S. citizen in 1969 and was the first American to become the top designer of a French fashion house.<\/p>\n<p>His style was described as a mix of European luxury clothing and American casual wear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> donned a <strong>de la Renta<\/strong> dress at a White House cocktail party this month after\u00a0 allegedly snubbing him for years after he chided her for her choice of clothing for a meeting with <strong>Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong> in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[google-translator] Oscar de la Renta \u2014 an icon of the fashion world who dressed royals and celebrities \u2014 has died at the age of 82. The famed designer, who created a global empire with his formal wear and evening gowns, died Monday at his home in Connecticut after a long battle with cancer. Born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}