Oscar de la Renta is a designer extraordinaire. He has a complete line of clothing, accessories, and scents for Men, Women and Children.  Santo Domingo is his home town in Dominican Republic, where he was born on July 22, 1932. De la Renta attended the National School of Art in Santo Domingo. He left the country when he was 18 to study painting at the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid.  He became interested in clothing design while in Spain, started sketching and soon became an apprentice to  Cristóbal Balenciaga.  Later Oscar de la Renta left Spain to become a couture assistant at the house of Lanvin in Paris. He arrived in New York in 1963 to design the couture collection for Elizabeth Arden. Then in  1965, Mr. de la Renta went out on his own and started his own signature ready-to-wear label.

Mr de la Renta helped build a school and day care center for children in the Dominican Republic. He has a summer house in Punta Cana.

To read more of him and see his designs check out Oscar de la Rentas web site.

Read about the history of Oscar de la Renta

Sully Bonnelly was born in the Dominican Republic. He started learning about fashion at a young age from his observations of the women in his family. He started by studying architecture and finished his studying by studying fashion at Parson’s in New York City.

He launched his own collection in 1998 and in 2000 was elected as a member of the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America), one of the leading fashion associations in the world.

To read more and see some of Sully Bonnelly's designs.

A native of the Dominican Republic, Ms. Libman’s reputation has grown to be included as one of the fashion industry’s most talented designers. She is a favorite designer of the First Lady of the Dominican Republic and has designed gowns for several Miss Universe contestants.

Pictures of Lourdes Libmans Spring 2006 Couture Collection. and her 2007 Spring Collection. Quite impressive

Dominican Republic has some exquisite clothing designers. Many of them are known the world over. Just because the island of  Hispaniola is small does not mean that we are small on talent. Viva República Dominicana!

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