Françoise de Langlade

Françoise de Langlade was a magazine editor with Conde Nast Publications and the wife of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. 

She started her career in fashion with The House of Schiaparelli, which she left to work at Harper’s Bazaar. She joined French Vogue in 1951, where she served as Fashion Editor and Editor-in-Chief. In 1967, she married Oscar de la Renta and moved to the United States. In 1968, she joined American Vogue where she served as Editor-at-Large.^[1]

She also worked as a Fashion and Beauty Editor for Elizabeth Arden International. She is credited with using her established network of contacts to help promote her husband’s brand.

According to Michael Gross’ 2009 book Rogues’ Gallery The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum, both Langlade and her husband were bi.[2]