Oscar de la Renta Fashion
Oscar de la Renta Fashion
Oscar de la Renta Fashion
Oscar de la Renta Fashion
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Oscar: Lost In the Bermuda Triangle
Written by: Godfrey Deeny
Photos by: Visko Hatfield
New York, Feb 13, 2001/ FWD/ --- It's probably a little churlish to
criticize a designer evidently distracted while preparing his collection by ill-health - in
Oscar de la Renta's case a bad back. Oscar was forced to greet well-wishers backstage after
his Bryant Park show Tuesday in a wheelchair. But this was not a happy outing for American
fashion's grandest designer.
Neither the choice of fabric and color palette nor the overall mood ever quite worked in
this show, which was more prissy than posh, more contrived than classical.
Even de la Renta's famed cutting skills deserted him. Tweed to-the-knee skirts with six-inch
pleats jostled rather than swung; elaborate cashmere cables looked odd rather than opulent.
Retailers in well-cut suits sitting front-row will surely find something for the racks of
their up-market floors, in particular tweed or cashmere halter dresses, a wonderful black
leather top with an elaborate cowl and several black velvet or silk crepe columns that
just oozed class. And many of the accessories, in particular feather and diamond handbags,
pony skin boots and embroidered totes and shoes, were simply splendid.
But exactly where women would wear many of the clothes was difficult to fathom. What could
one make of the fussy panne velvet pants or, for that matter, the heavy-handed velvet pants?
Hard to know. And the grand black moiré taffeta coat would be fine for a life of Catherine
the Great, but little else.
No doubt there was plenty of effort put into this show. The collection, however, got lost
somewhere between the Italian fabric mills where Oscar sourced the collection and Oscar's
plane flights through the Bermuda Triangle to his palatial Dominican Republic estate.
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