DHAKA: Oscar de la Renta unveiled its first collection since the death of its founder, with a beautiful debut of Latin-inspired elegance made fresh by British creative director Peter Copping.

The de la Renta show, on Tuesday, was one of the most hotly anticipated of New York Fashion Week, with fashionistas intrigued to see how he would fare only four months since the death of the legendary Dominican-born designer.

‘In this, my first collection, I hope to honour Oscar’s legacy and also to start a new chapter for the house,’ Copping wrote in a brief note, reports The Straits Times.

He was appointed just weeks before de la Renta’s death from cancer cut short their hopes of collaborating on the 2015 fall/winter collection.

Copping said never having the chance to work with de la Renta was ‘something I deeply regret’, but said he was ‘immensely proud’ to have been appointed.

BDST: 1230 HRS, FEB 18, 2015