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Alexander Bolen
Alexander Bolen is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of international luxury goods firm Oscar de la Renta. Mr. Bolen was named Chief Executive Officer in July 2004 after serving as the company's Director of Corporate Development for more than a year. Prior to joining Oscar de la Renta in 2003, he worked for 14 years on Wall Street in leveraged finance most recently as Managing Director in the Mezzanine Capital Group at Bear Stearns & Co.
Mr. Bolen graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1990 with a B.A. in Russian studies. He and his wife, Eliza, who serves as Oscar de la Renta's Creative Director, are the proud parents of three boys.
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Scott Gries/Getty Images(born July 22, 1932, Santo Domingo, Dom.Rep.) Dominican-born U.S. fashion designer. After studies in Santo Domingo and Madrid, he became staff designer for Cristobal Balenciaga in Madrid. He moved to New York City in 1962 and started his own company to produce women's ready-to-wear fashions. In 1973 he founded Oscar de la Renta Couture and expanded into household linens, menswear, and perfumes. In the 1970s he introduced the ethnic look with Gypsy and Russian themes; more recently he has produced romantic evening clothes in taffeta, chiffon, velvet, brocade, and fur. From 1993 to 2002 he designed couture for the house of Pierre Balmain.
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