Spain honors Oscar de la Renta

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Dominican fashion designer Oscar de la Renta has been awarded the Great Cross of the Order of Civic Merit by the Spanish government. Spain's council of ministers approved a proposal by the Ministry of Foreign Relations that recommended the honor. De la Renta was born to Spanish parents in the Dominican Republic. He is the president of the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York.

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