Cameron Diaz at the 2010 Oscars

She won GFY's Best Dressed this year, if I recall correctly (she was definitely in the running) and holy cow, as she ever looked better?

Kate Hudson, 2009

This is so dreamy on her.

Oprah and Oscar de la Renta

The man himself, at the Met Ball with Oprah in 2010. I always appreciated that OdlR made dresses that worked on everyone from Oprah to Taylor Swift.

Tina Fey at the 2011 SAG Awards

Tina loves OdlR, and with good reason.

Jennifer Lawrence, 2011 SAGs

In a simpler, Dior-less time.

Fall/Winter 2012

Who wouldn't want to dance in this?

Spring/Summer 2013

Whenever I'd sit down at OdlR, I'd think, "this is going to be great." It always was. It was ALWAYS pretty, it was always ladylike, and chic. I always knew it was going to make me happy.

Amy Adams at the 2013 Oscars

This has a majestic sweep.

Amy Adams at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscar Party

And this! This might be the best Amy Adams has ever looked -- and she's looked pretty damn great over the years. This is so amazing.

Emma Watson, 2014

The back of this is FANTASTIC on her.

Spring/Summer 2013

I LOVE this dress. I have always loved this dress.

Fall/Winter 2013

I wish someone would wear THIS on Reign.

Fall/Winter 2013

Or this.

Fall/Winter 2013

Or THIS.

Fall/Winter 2013

My kingdom for the day dress.

Fall/Winter 2013

And yet one cannot argue that Mr de la Renta lacked whimsy.

Spring/Summer 2014

Hey! We just saw this on Amal Clooney (whose wedding dress was also, of course, OdlR).

Spring/Summer 2014

I LONG for this. I want to wear this and go fully Diane Lockhart on people, fabulous and kick-ass and elegant.

Spring/Summer 2014

I wanted Emma Stone to wear this the first time I saw it, and I stand by this.

Spring/Summer 2014

This is a delight.

Spring/Summer 2014

I hope the next few weeks are just chockablock with women wearing these dresses, in tribute. They're so lovely.

Spring/Summer 2014

You may remember that Jessica Pare wore this to the Emmys this year. The color is glorious.

Spring/Summer 2014

I love how much color Oscar always showed.

Spring/Summer 2014

When we originally covered this, I wanted the Duchess of Cambridge to wear this. I stand by that, as well -- if she does come to NYC in December, as rumored, I would not be surprised if we had a dash of OdlR in the wardrobe.

Spring/Summer2014

We eventually saw this in Cannes on Freida Pinto (an elegant marriage of actress and designer).

Katy Perry at the AMAs, 2013

This is EASILY one of the prettiest things she's ever worn.

Jessica Chastain in Deauville, 2014

This is so pretty on her.

Jennifer Garner at the 2014 Oscars

This surely makes you want to shimmy in it.

Fall/Winter 2014

This is simply tremendous.

Fall/Winter 2014

This is the platonic ideal of a party dress, to me.

Fall/Winter 2014

And this is FANTASTIC and wearable by women of a wide range of ages.

Fall/Winter 2014

I could see this on so many people. It's adorable.

Fall/Winter 2014

This is such a confection.

Sping 2015 Bridal

I could just write, "so pretty," and leave it at that for every one of these slides.

Spring 2015 Bridal

So pretty.

Spring 2015 Bridal

SO PRETTY.

Ivanka Trump, Met Ball 2014

This is wonderful on her

Karlie Kloss Met Gala, 2014

Karlie so often closed the show at Oscar. She is surely very sad today.

SJP at the Met Ball, 2014

THIS was a wacky exercise, but you can't say it didn't adhere to theme and go full whimsy. SJP feels very OdlR to me. She gave Heather the NICEST interview at the Oscar show one year, in fact. She, too, is a complete pro.

Spring/Summer 2015

Day dresses, I love you.

Spring/Summer 2015

This is wonderfully 80s.

Spring/Summer 2015

I cannot wait for someone to wear this. It's rare to feel that way about a dress.

Spring/Summer 2015

Ditto. Bring them on. Bring on the dresses.

September, 2014

Perhaps we should all put on our prettiest dresses and raise a glass today.

Oscar de la Renta: A Retrospective

As you may have seen, Oscar de la Renta has died. We couldn't let a titan of all things gorgeous pass without remembering some of our favorite pieces this extraordinary person put into the world. It's not a comprehensive list -- it could be a hundred slides and it wouldn't be enough -- but we picked out some of our favorite runway and red-carpet looks from the years we both wrote about his work on GFY, and were lucky to cover his runway shows. For more in-depth tributes, I encourage you to look at the wonderful and more wide-reaching retrospectives from WWD, and from our colleagues at The Cut, who also wrote a lovely piece called Oscar de la Renta Loved Powerful Women. Finally, I recommend this wonderful piece from Robin Givhan, who I hope keeps writing forever. A small excerpt, but you should read the entire thing: "...de la Renta represented a kind of old-school fashion with its emphasis on propriety, elegance and good taste. And while he helped to democratize fashion, he held on to a fundamental belief in an almost civic responsibility to be appropriately attired. It was good manners, after all. But even in retaining a certain decorum, he never allowed his vision to grow old or irrelevant. He could wow an audience with his draping technique. He could dazzle with his sense of color. But mostly, his aesthetic sensibility was predicated on the simple notion that women — all women — want to look pretty." On a personal level, Oscar is always one of the highlights, if not the highlight, of Fashion Week for us. It's the kind of visual feast where your heart is in your throat the whole time, because whenever that last dress comes down the runway it will always feel too soon. In fact, some of my most wonderful Fashion Week moments happened at OdlR -- the time I was late, and ended up watching the show standing in the photo pit on a sandbag next to Andre Leon Talley (also tardy); the time Anna Wintour brought Roger Federer, the day after he won the US Open, and the crowd gave him a standing ovation; the time I found myself, to my delight, sitting right behind Mr. Valentino; and, most of all, the first Oscar show I ever went to, where my seat was well in the back, but from which I had a perfect view of Mr. de la Renta himself, giving every single model a look-over before they walked onto the runway. I must have watched more of him than I did of the show, and I felt incredibly, deeply lucky to do it. This is the end of an era, and as I said on Twitter when the news broke, the world is forever less elegant for this loss. So, tremendous condolences from the GFY family to the OdlR one -- and from what we've witnessed, it is indeed a family ("At the last runway show in September, they all seemed to be holding back emotions -- but when Mr. de la Renta came out for his bow, they were all wiping their wet eyes. They must have known, and how heart-rending it must have been to watch him effectively say goodbye" -- H). Their graciousness and class extends from the New York HQ right on through to the Oscar de la Renta store here in Los Angeles, where the women were beyond lovely when I accompanied a friend as she shopped for her wedding dress several years ago. My friend did end up wearing Oscar on her wedding day, and she looked perfect. In that way, for woman all over the world, Mr. de la Renta will be here for eternity. [A brief technical note: we're currently having issues with slide titles. If yours don't appear to have dates on them, or appear to be truncated in a weird way, refreshing the page should resolve the issue. Apologies for the aggravation and thank you for understanding.] [Photos: Getty, INF, Pacific Coast News, Splash, Fame/Flynet]