Dominican Republic Renta was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932, and became a US citizen in 1971. He studied under the leading Spaniard designer Cristóbal Balenciaga and then worked with the house of Lanvin in Paris. By 1963, he had designs bearing 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, and remained active in his native Dominican Republic, where his charitable
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