Carolina Herrera this Monday evoked a majestic-looking secret garden at the Plaza Hotel in New York, where she presented a collection for next spring-summer feminine, elegant and dominated by flowers, both in prints and in embossed applications.
On the fourth day of Fashion Week, the show took the place of a Renaissance-style ballroom where the models made an entrance worthy of the Parisian Debutante Ball, passing through a gallery with marble columns and descending a flight of stairs towards the crowd of guests that filled the space.
The brand, creatively directed by Wes Gordon since Herrera handed over the baton to him in 2018, has taken advantage of the season when its tight silhouettes look best and has proposed flirty dresses, short for the day and long for special occasions. , as well as classic combinations of trousers and a blouse with a marked waist.
The creative also wanted to pay homage to the Venezuelan designer, whose style is always present in her collections, since she made one of her first presentations almost forty years ago in the historic hotel located at the foot of Central Park.
Gordon, who said he was inspired by writer Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden”, gave absolute prominence to the flowers in pastel yellow, pink or lilac motifs that combined with everything, with different stripes on the same dress , or with other striped or joined pieces.
The jewels also shone, in the long earrings with precious stones that moved as the models passed and in the same garments, for example, in a tight knee-length dress with a bodice, all covered with red gems that also decorated a matching miniskirt. with a black American jacket.
The “good girls” representing the “Good Girl” fragrance stand out, including the mannequin Karlie Kloss, who wore two long dresses, one with vertical stripes with slits and a flower in relief on the shoulder of a puff sleeve, and another with more conservative flowers, with closed collar, long sleeves and belt.
Precious Lee, a plus-size black model who rose to fame last year with Versace and has since been one of the most sought after in an industry seeking diversity, was tasked with closing the runway wearing a low-cut black dress. honor and a cascade of tulle to the train.
The event brought together around three hundred people, a notable difference from small groups on other occasions due to the pandemic, led by Carolina Herrera, who never misses the appointment; Vogue director Anna Wintour and celebrities from around the world, such as Mexican singer Becky G.
