Oscar de la Renta at Intercontinental
Famed designer receives standing ovation
Famed fashion designer Oscar de la Renta lured a large and luxurious crowd to Miami’s Hotel Intercontinental with a fashion show and personal appearance to benefit Sur Futuro Foundation, an organization that fights poverty in the Dominican Republic.
Guests – who included Toby Ansin, Elysze Held, Ana Somarriba, Yolanda Berkowitz, Jennifer Valoppi, Swanee DiMare, Stephanie Sayfie Aagaard, Trish Bell and many more – were invited to sip Rum Brugal cocktails and enjoy filet mignon as they were dazzled by the designer’s 2011 pre-fall collection. His creations came in bold oranges, bright greens, shell pinks and magical blacks, each one igniting gasps throughout the crowd and a standing ovation after the finale.
“Oscar de la Renta’s clothes are classics — not disposable fashion,” says Giselle Remos, who arrived in a Town Car and headed up a table of 10 style-setters. “You can keep them in your closet for ages. But besides being a great designer, he supports humanitarian causes.”
In addition to lending his collections and his time, Mr. de la Renta donated a $10,000 gift certificate to his Bal Harbour boutique, which was raffled off and won by Maria Cruz Waterhouse and Luz Estella Hulzet.
Meanwhile, corporate sponsor Cartier conducted a drawing for the Cartier La Dona ladies watch, which went to Liliam Kamley. While community collaborator Tortuga Bay donated a five-day stay at their Dominican Republic property, handing the vacation over to a very lucky Laura Pimentel.
Brett Graff is SocialMiami.com’s managing editor and has been a journalist covering money, people and power for over 20 years. Graff contributes to national media outlets including Reuters, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Maxim, and the PBS show, Nightly Business Report. A former U.S. government economist, her nationally syndicated column The Home Economist is first published in The Miami Herald and then on the Tribune Content Agency, where it’s available to over 400 publications nationwide. She is broadcast weekly on two iHeartRadio news shows and is the author of “Not Buying It: Stop Overspending & Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids,” a parenting guide for people who might be tempted to buy their children the very obstacles they’re trying to avoid.
