The Frick Gallery and Carolina Herrera... A perfect match, would you not say? Before the Era of Wes was ushered in in all of it's majesty, Ms. Herrera herself was still a powerhouse of a designer with one eye always on the now and one on the elegant and richesse clientele who she clothed in her couture worthy finery for over 35 years. Spring 2016 was just such a prime example or Ms. Herrera's incredibly articulate and focused view of fashion that straddled both the Upper East Side and the more downtown environs. Staging it at the Frick, which was the first time such an auspicious event had ever taken place there, was a stroke of brilliance. The synergy of space and show was a brilliant and unexpectedly natural homogeneous conception, and Ms. Herrera took full advantage of the situation and created a collection that was current and modern without losing any of Herrera's tony uptown elegant swag.
Elegance this time around, however, did not mean staidness or rigidity and refusal of what is swirling in the ceaseless eddies of the fashion tide. Herrera never follows the current, but neither is she insolently pushing against it either. So, to that end, Herrera injected some scintillation into her collection that she slyly referred to as her "Rose Period" via slivers of skin peeking through the sheer inserts and solid on sheer overlays that abounded in the collection and added a sincere frisson of simmering sexuality to the cultivated and refined attitude that suffuses Herrera's work. This was gleefully compounded by the refreshing and energetic usage of Pink throughout the collection, which in Herrera's able and facile hands never seemed twee or saccharine. One Bougainvillea Pink stunner was decorated by White Neoprene flowers down it's front was a captivator from top to bottom. Also a winner of epic proportions was a Navy masterpiece (Navy was a brilliant contrapuntal choice to all the rosy shades on display) interspliced with narrow panels of sheer mesh that was a Mic Drop moment to be sure.
All the usual trademarks of the Herrera DNA were on display and tweaked, controverted and reconfigured into new permutations that pleased the old and satisfied the new. Herrera has not been in business as long as she has if she didn't sway like a bendable Willow in the nonstop and everchanging breezes of fashion. She has navigated those winds of change like the unswayable stalwart professional and regal force of nature that she is, this collection was a unassailable testimony to how Ms. Herrera can stand on the Terra Firma of her brand yet be absolutely and wildly inquisitive and curious as to what is and not what was. That kind of flexibility is key to surmounting the whiplash inducing changes that define fashion, and Herrera possesses that quality inherently, and it served her exceptionally well this time as it has time and time again in her illustrious and sterling career.
That's All.
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