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...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...It isn’t deep, it isn’t stable and it isn’t widespread,” said Tamara Herrera, director of local consultancy Síntesis Financiera....
...Having been mothballed for more than two years, Bonhams Asian watch division was revived last year, reuniting Ms Chan with former Sotheby’s colleagues Tim Bourne and Vanessa Herrera....
...At Carolina Herrera, an entire dress came in broadtail; a double-faced wool coat was given alligator appliqués and sable collar; and the geometric print jacquard evening wear had a constructed quality....
...After all, Sophie Hallett, which has a factory and dying plant in Caudry, northern France, and employs 250 people, works not only with the wedding specialists such as Vera Wang, Carolina Herrera and Oscar...
...Carolina Herrera’s regal black lace and blue-taffeta ball gown on Michelle Obama at the White House, or Carolina Herrera’s haute urban geometry, alligator/cashmere patchwork suits, and op-print gowns on...
...Carolina Herrera produced a lighter-than-ever collection (literally so), based on the kinetic art movement and the work of Venezuelan artists Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto, that was marked by the...
...Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor ——————————————- Sant Ambroeus 259 West 4th Street, NY Sparkling water $7.50 Still water $7.50 Carciofi $19.00 Tartare di salmone e mele $19.00 Fusillone...
...Fashion-capital-F teaches us anything, it’s that done properly cheaper lines absolutely do not erode brand equity – just call them “entry points” and look to Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael Michael Kors, CH by Carolina Herrera...
...C – 5 ; A – 4 Proenza Schouler: C – 3 ; A – 3 Marc Jacobs: C – 3 ; A – 2 Calvin Klein: C – 5; A – 0 Ralph Lauren: C – 5; A -1 Donna Karan: C – 2 ; A – 2 Oscar de la Renta: C – 3 ; A – 3 Carolina Herrera...
...So far Ms Kennedy has favoured Carolina Herrera (Mrs Herrera made her wedding dress), and she tends toward sleeveless dresses for day; she also made a much-balleyhooed appearance at a Marc Jacobs show a...
...Renta stayed in his own 24-carat groove, from a black and white polka dot bouclé lunching suit with lace tee and trim to an extraordinary peach pouf of a ball gown, taffeta over tulle; as did Carolina Herrera...
...Caroline Brown is CEO of Carolina Herrera. Shirley Cook is CEO of Proenza Schouler. DVF has a female CEO: Paula Sutter....
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...Other than those above, here are two more from Oscar (below left) and Herrera (right)....
...At least Carolina Herrera seemed to have reached a successful compromise, balancing her discretely chic café au lait tweeds with vampy Joan Crawford evening wear: fully covered, but body-aware, and liquid...
...And so the fashion cycle continues … vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...Consider, for example, Carolina Herrera, who abandoned some of her recent sartorial stiffness and announced, in case no one got it from the three-quarter length crepe or chiffon dresses on the runway, all...
...It was an approach mirrored by both Vera Wang, who contained elaborate tone-on-tone embroideries in identifiably urban shapes – tailored shorts, tunics, shift dresses – and Carolina Herrera, who let some...
...After all, Puig, the Spanish group that owns Gaultier, also own Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Paco Rabanne (as well as a gazillion designer fragrance licenses)....
...Puig is primarily a fragrance group, but also owns fashion brands Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci, Gaultier and Paco Rabanne....
...vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...Veronica Etro designs women’s wear at Etro, the firm her parents founded in 1968; Carolina Herrera’s younger daughters Carolina Jr and Patricia play advisory roles in their mother’s eponymous company....
...And it is, as Mr Puig says, a “hybrid” of fashion and fragrance: it owns the houses of Nina Ricci, Rabanne, Carolina Herrera (and now Gaultier); creates prestige fragrances for those brands (save for Gaultier...
...So news arrives that the Puig Group, the Spanish beauty/fashion conglomerate that owns the fragrances and fashion of Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci and Paco Rabanne, as well as other super-lucrative scents...
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