The date and time: Monday, February 5, 2007, 10:35am
The Carolina Herrera runway show, the Tent, Bryant Park
The verdict: ++
By Vivian G. Kelly
Photographs courtesy of Getty Images
Ms. Herrera is always smartly sophisticated, a quality that alas is missing from our culture’s current zeitgeist. We're living in a culture in which women seem to aspire to model themselves on the vacuous Paris Hilton and to dress in infantile baby doll styles.
Meanwhile at Herrera, her customers can look forward to luxurious pieces that include a brown mink Audrey Style jacket [remember her ski outfit in XXX?] and a silver snakeskin sheath dress with an open keyhole neckline for cocktails and a sweet round neck dove gray dress with Cossack sleeves and fabric rosettes covering the buttons on the back. PETA is apparently not a concern here, as fur is part of the sophisticated jet-setters wardrobe regardless of PETA’s initiatives. The gray fur scarves looked beautiful over a sheer blouse and wide trousers, as did the belted brown cardigan with a wide coyote collar. We spotted a cozy chocolate brown cable cardigan [also seen at Bruce over the weekend]. For evening, we loved the navy crochet v-neck dress with empire waistline for a young girl and the high neck sheath for a more mature cal. Evening was very toned down, and we’d love to own the grape and black organza fil coupe raindrop gown as well as a pair of the dark brown big sunglasses. Congratulations to Ms. Herrera for her strongest collection yet.