Carolina Herrera: The blue-collar aristocrat
Herrera, the Marchioness of Torre Casa, is 71 and has 29 years as a fashion designer behind her, but it is still the propriety of her aristocratic upbringing you notice about her first.. We are proud to say that we offer beautiful bridesmaid dresses! We'll do our best for you!. Happy marriage life begins with beautiful wholesale wedding dresses.Born Maria Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Ni?o in Caracas (her father, the governor of the city, bred racehorses), she is that rarefied thing – a designer who is both her own ideal customer and the perfect representative of the brand.She is sitting on a velvet chair in her new 'lifestyle' boutique in Mayfair, London, her legs elegantly swished to one side, her hands in her lap. 'A woman,' she tells me, 'should be chic by day, seductress by night,. We supply top quality diesel jeans,skirt and more.You find the latest jeans clothing,Denim and Fasjeans clothing' and she has the first one covered. A cream silk blouse slinks at her neck and her grey tulip-shaped skirt is beautifully complemented by high peep-toe grey suede courts, her slim calves stretched out in soft beige hosiery (not tights; tights in this context would sound far too common).On the wood-panelled walls are various photographs of Herrera and her four daughters, black and white snapshots from a jet-set life – seasons in New York, winters in Mustique, weekends in a 500-year-old, 65-room hacienda in Venezuela. The shop may be selling a lifestyle but in her case – a woman who went to her first fashion show when she was 13 (Balanciaga, in Paris) – it is not forced or aspirational, but all too real.
You have to find your feet with her. Not because she is spiky – quite the opposite. She has just eaten a pizza in the restaurant next door, and when she says, 'Well, you should go because it is really fabulous there,. To have a beautiful Custom wedding dresses is a dream of brides.' you wonder whether this is not just blanket enthusiasm. She says 'fab-u-loss' a lot, enunciating each syllable, and 'divine'.
She is thrilled to be opening in Mount Street because 'I find this street very chic and have always loved it'. In her accented English – more French than anything, her Vs come out as Ds. 'I Lod the place and I am very happy with the results. I Lod it.' And what about the timing? Does her personal fortune make her recession-proof? 'But it is wonderful to have boutiques everywhere. They are divine; so cosy, no?'She breaks off – not rudely, of course – and says, 'How are you?' to a man who has wandered in. She tells him about the fabulousness of the pizza next door and they discuss the rain. She says, 'But it was sunny on Saturday so we are happy, no?' You might have got the impression he was an old friend, but after he has gone she murmurs, 'Who was he?' and in retrospect you realise the 'how are you?' was a very polite person's way of asking the same thing.
She got into fashion as a socialite in New York – in the 1970s she and her husband, Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, were the sort of couple who were everywhere; on the social pages, on the dance floor at Studio 54. 'My best friends were Andy [Warhol], Robert Mapplethorpe, Bianca [Jagger], all that group.'
Fashion magazines listed her as one of the best-dressed women in the world: she wore French couture but also clothes made to her own design in Caracas. In 1981, encouraged by her friend Diana Vreeland at Vogue, she went into business.
On paper it seems extraordinary that her venture should have worked. But this would be to misunderstand her, to take her upbringing at face value. She had already shown independent spirit: she was the first woman in her family to be divorced (at 18 she had married a Venezuelan landowner, with whom she had two daughters) and now she was the first to get a job.
Herrera, the Marchioness of Torre Casa, is 71 and has 29 years as a fashion designer behind her, but it is still the propriety of her aristocratic upbringing you notice about her first.. We are proud to say that we offer beautiful bridesmaid dresses! We'll do our best for you!. Happy marriage life begins with beautiful wholesale wedding dresses.Born Maria Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Ni?o in Caracas (her father, the governor of the city, bred racehorses), she is that rarefied thing – a designer who is both her own ideal customer and the perfect representative of the brand.She is sitting on a velvet chair in her new 'lifestyle' boutique in Mayfair, London, her legs elegantly swished to one side, her hands in her lap. 'A woman,' she tells me, 'should be chic by day, seductress by night,. We supply top quality diesel jeans,skirt and more.You find the latest jeans clothing,Denim and Fasjeans clothing' and she has the first one covered. A cream silk blouse slinks at her neck and her grey tulip-shaped skirt is beautifully complemented by high peep-toe grey suede courts, her slim calves stretched out in soft beige hosiery (not tights; tights in this context would sound far too common).On the wood-panelled walls are various photographs of Herrera and her four daughters, black and white snapshots from a jet-set life – seasons in New York, winters in Mustique, weekends in a 500-year-old, 65-room hacienda in Venezuela. The shop may be selling a lifestyle but in her case – a woman who went to her first fashion show when she was 13 (Balanciaga, in Paris) – it is not forced or aspirational, but all too real.
You have to find your feet with her. Not because she is spiky – quite the opposite. She has just eaten a pizza in the restaurant next door, and when she says, 'Well, you should go because it is really fabulous there,. To have a beautiful Custom wedding dresses is a dream of brides.' you wonder whether this is not just blanket enthusiasm. She says 'fab-u-loss' a lot, enunciating each syllable, and 'divine'.
She is thrilled to be opening in Mount Street because 'I find this street very chic and have always loved it'. In her accented English – more French than anything, her Vs come out as Ds. 'I Lod the place and I am very happy with the results. I Lod it.' And what about the timing? Does her personal fortune make her recession-proof? 'But it is wonderful to have boutiques everywhere. They are divine; so cosy, no?'She breaks off – not rudely, of course – and says, 'How are you?' to a man who has wandered in. She tells him about the fabulousness of the pizza next door and they discuss the rain. She says, 'But it was sunny on Saturday so we are happy, no?' You might have got the impression he was an old friend, but after he has gone she murmurs, 'Who was he?' and in retrospect you realise the 'how are you?' was a very polite person's way of asking the same thing.
She got into fashion as a socialite in New York – in the 1970s she and her husband, Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, were the sort of couple who were everywhere; on the social pages, on the dance floor at Studio 54. 'My best friends were Andy [Warhol], Robert Mapplethorpe, Bianca [Jagger], all that group.'
Fashion magazines listed her as one of the best-dressed women in the world: she wore French couture but also clothes made to her own design in Caracas. In 1981, encouraged by her friend Diana Vreeland at Vogue, she went into business.
On paper it seems extraordinary that her venture should have worked. But this would be to misunderstand her, to take her upbringing at face value. She had already shown independent spirit: she was the first woman in her family to be divorced (at 18 she had married a Venezuelan landowner, with whom she had two daughters) and now she was the first to get a job.
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