Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta Dies

(AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
(AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta has died.

FOX News Radio’s Tonya J. Powers reports:

(AP Photo/File)
(AP Photo/File)

The fashion industry has lost a legend…

(de la Renta) “It’s a craft that you learn. It’s a craft of passion.”

(AP Photo/Carnegie Hall, Chris Lee, File)
(AP Photo/Carnegie Hall, Chris Lee, File)

And Oscar de la Renta shared that passion, dressing First Ladies, socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades.

(AP Photo/Carnegie Hall, Chris Lee, File)
(AP Photo/Carnegie Hall, Chris Lee, File)

He died Monday at his home in Connecticut, just six weeks after attending his New York Fashion Week show.

(AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, File)
(AP Photo/Diane Bondareff, File)

A statement released by his family did not specify a cause of death, but he had spoken in the past of having cancer.

(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
(AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Oscar de la Renta was 82.

Tonya J. Powers, FOX News Radio.

 

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