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THE SHOW
How Oscar de la Renta's designers, Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, are embracing the
past, reinventing the present and nurturing a whole new generation of swans along the way.
BY NICK REMSEN PORTRAIT BY TIM WALKER
IN THE VAULTED main chamber of New York City's 1920s-era
Cunard Building last September, Oscar de la Renta's chief design duo
of Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia sent out a Spring/Summer 2020
collection that thrummed with warm color and a subtle, freeing rhythm
(think billowing and beaded caftans and bias-cut mini-dresses). Raffia
trims audibly swished as models glided down the long hall. A spritz of
sharp citrus fragrance filtered through the still air.
Kim and Garcia—hired as heads-of-house not long after de la
Renta's passing in 2014, and a brief lead installment of the designer Peter
Copping (an arrangement that lasted just shy of two years)—were paying
