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
Jane Derby retired Lieut. Col. C. Ross Cuthbert of the British Army. She had children, including a son who was killed in World War II. After her death Oscar de la Renta took control of her company. having worked there before her death. Jane Derby Jane Derby (born Jeannette Barr in Rockymount, Virginia, 1895 – August 1965) was an American fashion designer. She worked as an apprentice designer, and she subsequently opened her own business in 1936 in New York. She later opened Jane Derby, Inc., in 1938, which she ran until she died in 1965, except during World War II. She