Carolina Herrera: Spring 2009

Carolina Herrera epitomizes classic, romantic, and feminine fashion. This season’s collection was inspired by the Renaissance artist Botticelli’s paintings and included many floral, muted, and beautiful tones.

Carolina Herra’s designs date back to the 1970s and 80s. That’s how amazingly iconic this lady is. She even dressed Caroline Kennedy Onasis in her later life. 

She is a mother, one of the best dressed women in the world, and dresses some of the best dressed women in the world.  

Her stores range from flagship locations in New York City (where she resides) to deep in the heart of Texas (but not by my house!). Ladies all over the world also wear her designs because she has locations ranging from Mexico City to Geneva Switerland. 

As mentioned previously, her Spring 2009 collection is romantic, inspiring, and feminine. It includes the all important cocktail dress as well. Virginia Smith, of Vogue, said of the collection “she’s the queen of the cocktail dress…it’s a collection of what she does best…it’s very much her.” 

“We have long gowns…it’s really inpractical to wear those. She’s responding to a need.” said Susan Fales-Hall in response to the abundance of the cocktail gown on the runway this season. 

Feminine, romantic and sexy are all words that describe Herrera’s collections. Another one of my fave designers, Tory Burch said, “Carolina doing sexy is a good thing.” So, everyone is a fan! 

Of course you’re a fashionista, so falling in love with Carolina isn’t hard. You can always find Carolina Herra clothing at Sak’s Fifth Avenue & Neiman Marcus. 

Photos from: Sak’s Fifth Avenue & Neiman Marcus