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Oscar de la Renta has passed away at the age of 82, multiple outlets are reporting. The fashion designer had quietly been battling cancer since 2006, but you wouldn't know it based on his achievements this year alone—creating Amal Clooney's wedding dress on the sly and designing Sarah Jessica Parker's Met Ball dress among them. Former Nina Ricci designer Peter Copping was named as his successor last week. [Racked]