Close friends Oscar de la Renta and Andre Leon Talley, 2005. Photo courtesy of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Oscar de la Renta was a great man, a great American designer and at all times a winner, crisscrossing the fashion globe from Madrid to Paris to New York and living his life on paths of joy. One of those joys was witnessing women wear his clothes, whether they were famous or not. He would meet them on the road, on his tours throughout the United States and at trunk shows. And if he saw anyone he knew wearing his dress, he would often whisper in her ear quietly, ‘Thank you for wearing my dress.’
– Andre Leon Talley, former editor-at-large at Vogue.
Mr. Talley was a good friend of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta (1932-2014) and he has curated the current exhibition, Oscar de la Renta: A Retrospective, at the de Young in San Francisco.
Check back tomorrow for a review of the exhibition.
OverDressed for Life 
Moya – you MUST do a post about this runway selection. I am definitely a Valentino woman; Schiaparelli was the only other one I liked at all: http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-week-fall-2016/g6754/haute-couture-spring-2016
Thanks, Paula. I agree with you. Valentino is all elegance.