Oscar de la Renta was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother, Carmen María Antonia Fiallo, and a Puerto Rican father, Óscar Avelino De La Renta, owner of an insurance company. The Fiallos, De la Renta's mother's family, were so embedded in Dominican society that they could count poets, scholars, and businessmen, as well as top army brass among their members. Their origin in the island can be traced back to the foundation of San Carlos de Tenerife in 1685 by Canarian settlers. A maternal uncle, Luis Arístides Fiallo Cabral, was a doctor, lawyer, and architect, who received every degree the
Magdalena Frackowiak Magdalena Frackowiak Magdalena Frąckowiak (; born 8 October 1984) is a Polish model and jewellery designer who began appearing on international runways in 2006. Born in Gdańsk, Poland, Frąckowiak was sixteen, when her mother Danuta, sent her pictures to a Warsaw agency's modeling contest, which she won. Her first paid assignment was for "Machina" magazine. Frąckowiak resided in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada when she moved from Poland. Frąckowiak featured prominently in the 2008 Ralph Lauren, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, and Oscar de la Renta print campaigns, and she has been on the cover of Italian, German, Japanese, and Russian "Vogue" and French Revue