I decided I might make this a sort of ODLR-week on the blog. As a largely fashion-driven illustrator, fashions from great designers have played a huge part in my creative journey and driven me as an entrepreneur and artist, and no modern designer inspired me more regularly and fantastically than Oscar de la Renta. I’m no fashion editorialist, but to me, he had the magical ability to hearken back to that lost golden age of couture without losing the sense of being in the moment and modern. Somehow his designs were both timeless and timely.