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April showers bring May flowers 💐 This Oscar de la Renta dress designed by Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia is covered in flowers that are realistically rendered in silk and bead embroidery, conveying the sense of joy and renewal often associated with springtime. Throughout de la Renta's decades-long career, he was renowned for romantic eveningwear characterized by sculptural shapes and saturated colors. Kim and Garcia, who were appointed co-creative directors of the brand in 206, continue to capture that joie de vivre in their designs. See this on view in #MetInAmerica: Lexicon. // Dress, #OscardelaRenta (American, founded 1965), #LauraKim (American, born Korea, 1982), #FernandoGarcia (American, born 1986), fall/winter 2021–22; Courtesy Oscar de la Renta Archive.