Goodbye to a fashion icon

Iconic designer Oleg Cassini died last week at the age of 92. Cassini was famous for dressing Jackie Kennedy and numerous Hollywood beauties.

He was born in Paris in 1913 and grew up in Italy. He led a fashion house in Rome before moving to the US in 1936. "He arrived with a tennis racket, a tuxedo and talent and he made it into an empire," his wife Marianne, a former model and current president of Oleg Cassini Inc., told WWD. "He was a man's man and a ladies' man. He was a tremendous creator in women's wear and tremendously creative in men's wear."

Cassini was at one point engaged to Grace Kelly and married another beauty Gene Tierney in 1941. He attributed his good fortune to his "enormous talent".