Carolina Herrera Spring/Summer 2022
Anniversaries are a funny thing. They imply the start of something, that has endured for a certain amount of time. But they’re also useful points of reflection, to see how things have changed since the start. What is better? What needs work?
In terms of Fashion, this New York Fashion week marks the return to in-person shows since the start of the Covid-19 Pandemic in March 2020, which narrowly saw the completion of the Fall/Winter Shows mere days before worldwide lockdowns began. As we’ve eased back into the world in fits and starts, it feels prophetic and enduring that a storied New York House like Carolina Herrera is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary during this time of cautious optimism.
A peek at my Carolina Look + Accesories , plus some snaps from the show
The show, which was held at Salon 94, a new gallery space around the corner from the Guggenheim museum uptown, took the collection one step further than cautious optimism. There were skirts and dresses galore, many of them swishing and sighing loudly, and billowing behind the models as they power walked a geometrically shaped runway (And touching the legs of the seated guests, which kind of cracked me up). It was the kind of collection that screamed Main Character Energy - in the best way. It featured the kind of dresses you could imagine New York Types like Carrie Bradshaw or Blair Waldorf donning, before strutting their way through the streets of Soho or down 5th Avenue. The kind of thing a C.Z. Guest or a Modern Swan would pack in her suitcase before jetting off to a wedding at a French Chateau.
But what the collection did best was not only show how a modern woman can inject some glamour into even the mundane, but play to creative director Wes Gordon’s strengths. He’s shown in his few short years as the designer behind the House of Herrera, that he can combine solid tailoring (the kind that actually fits and flatters real women), with whimsical accents that make it feel one stop above the ordinary. But it doesn’t feel so out there that you’d actually be uncomfortable wearing it outside in a more mundane context. That’s the key thing to these sorts of pieces, that they are actually wearable, and don’t just sit in your closet gathering dust like a museum piece.
below? my faves from the collection that just screamed: things i’m filling my Summer 2022 wardrobe with if I finally get invited to that billionaires wedding.
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Images Courtesy of Vogue Runway/Carolina Herrera
