Culture of the Dominican Republic the Dominican Republic's fashion week has become the most important event of its kind in all of the Caribbean and one of the fastest growing fashion events in the entire Latin American fashion world. The country boasts one of the ten most important design schools in the region, La Escuela de Diseño de Altos de Chavón, which is making the country a key player in the world of fashion and design. World famous fashion designer Oscar de la Renta was born in the Dominican Republic in 1932 and became a US citizen in 1971. He studied under the leading Spaniard
Bernard Hopkins vs. Oscar De La Hoya Bernard Hopkins vs. Oscar De La Hoya Bernard Hopkins vs. Oscar De La Hoya, billed as "History", was a professional boxing match contested on September 18, 2004 for Hopkins' WBA, WBC, IBF, "The Ring" and lineal middleweight championships, and De La Hoya's WBO middleweight championship. After losing the WBA and WBC light middleweight titles to Shane Mosley in September 2003, five-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya decided to move up to the middleweight division to challenge undisputed middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, who had been middleweight champion for nearly a decade and had not lost a fight in over 11