Culture of the Dominican Republic designer Cristóbal Balenciaga and then worked with the house of Lanvin in Paris. Then by 1963, de la Renta had designs carrying his own label. After establishing himself in the US, de la Renta opened boutiques across the country. His work blends French and Spaniard fashion with American styles. Although he settled in New York, de la Renta also marketed his work in Latin America where it became very popular. He remained active in his native Dominican Republic, where his charitable activities and personal achievements earned him the Juan Pablo Duarte Order of Merit and the Order of Cristóbal Colón.
Oscar Bardi de Fourtou vols., 1859); "La Question italienne" (1860); "De la centre-revolution" (1876); and "Mémoires d'un royaliste" (2 vols., 1888). Oscar Bardi de Fourtou Marie, François, Oscar Bardi de Fourtou (3 January 1836, Ribérac – 6 December 1897, Paris) was a French politician. Born into a bourgeois family, he served as Minister of Transport from 7 December 1872 – 18 May 1873. He also served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Public Instruction, in which he "carried out aggressively conservative policies by dismissing certain liberal professors and re-establishing censorship." There he proved a useful adherent to Thiers, who made him minister of