Oscar De La Renta Oscar de la Renta fragrances and colognes Fashion designer born in the Dominican Republic in 1932. He showed his love for art and fashion from a young age. He studied art in Madrid and as his love for fashion grew he began designing for fashion houses and ended up as an assistant fashion designer at Lanvin, France in 1960. After working for a while in this field his artistic sense led him to design the fashion and ready-to-wear line. He left for the United States and worked for Elizabeth Arden, and after a while he was able to launch and create his own fashion house in 1965. The first release of this house was in 1977 and the most recent from 2016. Oscar de la Renta perfumes are issued in collaboration with designers: Frank Voelkel, Ann Gottlieb, Jacques Cavallier, Alberto Morillas, Jean-Marc Chaillan, Carlos Biniam, Jean-Louis Suizac, Sonia Constant, Petriac Piquet, Elias Ermendis, Sophia Grojsman, Pascal Gorin, Bruno Jovanovic.