Peter Copping’s first turn as creative director stays true to the late designer’s legacy, with a femininity that remains refined yet upbeat
There are not many catwalk shows at which you will find Nancy Kissinger and Taylor Swift sharing a front row, a fact which pinpoints precisely why the Oscar de la Renta show is the most important of this New York fashion week.
For four decades Oscar de la Renta, who died last year aged 82, helped define the very image of America. He all but invented the notion of First Lady fashion; created legendary Academy Award red carpet gowns; dressed Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. Less than two months before his death, he designed the wedding gown for the almost-royal wedding of America’s bachelor prince, George Clooney, to Amal Alamuddin.