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A corset design enhances the daringly chic appeal of this lace-up open-back homecoming dress

Fabric: Metallic Lame, Polyester

The event raised $3.25 million for The Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund and the AIDS Crisis Trust

Born in the Dominican Republic, Oscar de la Renta worked in Europe through the 1950s when French fashion was at such a pivotal point first as a designer for Balenciaga, and later as assistant designer to Antonio Castillo at Lanvin-Castillo, Paris from 1961-1963. In the 1960s, he brought what he had learned working at the couture house to New York, and eventually started his own label, which, in a way, was the true "American couture house" of its time