In his practically six years at Carolina Herrera designer Wes Gordon has taken inspiration from a lot of Mrs. Herrera’s creations, however by no means from the designer herself. Being one of many most-photographed designers on the planet, and by well-known names from Horst P. Horst to Robert Mapplethorpe, Herrera is a wealthy topic. Taking a look at her biography and the various stunning photographs of her collected in a 2004 e book subtitled Portrait of an Icon was an intuition, Gordon felt, whose time had come.
Herrera is Venezuelan. She spent the primary half of her life, up till 40, in that nation, earlier than shifting together with her household to New York and, briefly order, organising her model. “Her time at La Vega [her husband’s family’s estate] was like a romance novel, a dream,” Gordon says. “Then she moved right here and her wardrobe modified, there was an actual working-woman vibe.” His new assortment displays that trajectory, alternating between skin-baring attire in subtropical colours and a black skirt swimsuit with a female curved neckline, or between floral shirt attire and bouclé tweed separates with gold chain detailing.
The lookbook has been styled with signature Herrera prospers together with a black internet veil of the type she wore in a 1979 portrait by Mapplethorpe and the coloured gemstone earrings she selected for a sitting with Andy Warhol that resulted in one in every of his well-known colourful silkscreens. She’d probably approve of a excessive night look that mixed a white shirt with voluminous sleeves (one in every of her signatures) with a protracted column skirt pavéd in crystals. A colorblocked robe with a celadon bodice and a grass-green full skirt captured the grandeur Herrera was recognized for, however in a extra informal register—a nifty trick.
