Designer Oscar de la Renta acknowledges the audience after his swansong show for Pierre Balmain on July 9, 2002, during the autumn/winter 2002/2003 haute couture collections in Paris. (Pierre Verdy / AFP)
Oscar de la Renta was the honoree at the 2014 Carnegie Hall Medal Of Excellence gala at the Plaza Hotel on April 24, 2014, in New York City. (Brad Barket / Getty Images)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens as Oscar de la Renta speaks on stage at the 2013 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. (Brad Barket /Invision / Associated Press)
Oscar de la Renta and Oprah Winfrey arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala on May 3, 2010, in New York City. (Evan Agostini / Associated Press)
Oscar de la Renta relaxes backstage before the presentation of Balmain’s fall-winter 2002/2003 haute couture fashion collection in July 2002 in Paris. It was De la Renta’s last show for Balmain. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)
In September, Oscar de la Renta took a bow with models Karlie Kloss, left, and Daria Strokous after his spring 2015 collection was modeled during Fashion Week in New York. (Diane Bondareff / Associated Press)
Oscar de la Renta, left, acknowledges applause after presentation of the spring-summer 2001 haute couture collection he designed for Pierre Balmain, in Paris in January 2001. (Francois Mori / Associated Press)
