Monday, February 23, 2015

A New Chapter for Oscar de la Renta Begins With Baby Steps!


And so a page was turned.
Tuesday evening, as the sun set over Bryant Park, the British designer Peter Copping made his debut as creative director of Oscar de la Renta. Long before the official show time of 6:30 p.m., the Town Cars had begun to pull up at the entrance, their fur-clad occupants spilling out in anticipation.
Few designers on the Fashion Week schedule had been as much a part of the social and celebrity fabric of the city as was Mr. de la Renta, who died last October after anointing Mr. Copping his heir, and it seemed half of New York took the elevator up to the 25th floor of 11 West 42nd Street to shoehorn their way onto already-packed benches to see what would happen next.

“In this, my first collection, I hope to honor Oscar’s legacy and also to start a new chapter for the house,” read the note from Mr. Copping, left in a folder on every place.
In 55 looks, he achieved the first aim, and began to inch his way toward the second.
From the opening knee-length jet-embroidered black coat over an ivory crepe dress, a style synonymous with Mrs. de la Renta, to the tweed skirt suits, the color-block mink coats, frilly cocktail dresses and full-bore red-carpet entrance-makers — even the hair twisted up into a neat chignon — this was a sartorial treatise conceived entirely in the vernacular of the house.

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