Few designers could claim to have both Taylor Swift and Hillary Clinton on their client lists. But such was the universal appeal of the late, great Oscar de la Renta. He designed the pale pink confection Taylor wore to last year’s Met Ball, and he created the chic velvet number Hillary wore for her Vogue cover in 1996. Both dresses appear in a new exhibition of the designer’s work that opened today at the SCAD Museum of Art. As do original pieces worn by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Oprah. But the show is not a retrospective, says its curator, André Leon Talley, a close friend of Oscar’s and a trustee at SCAD. Instead, it was arranged as a tribute to the close relationships and friendships that the designer maintained with his clients. Talley even picked out the pieces from those clients’ wardrobes personally. “I was literally inside their closets,” he told Vogue.
Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style is on show through May 3 at the SCAD Museum of Art.
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Text Alice Newell-Hanson
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