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Carolina Herrera to showcase at Dubai Fashion Week

New York-based Carolina Herrera, designed by Wes Gordon, will be the guest of honour at the upcoming Dubai Fashion Week (DFW) in October. Dubai Fashion Week, which runs October 8 to 15, was founded by Dubai Design District, a member of TECOM Group PJSC and the Arab Fashion Council. The showcase will present spring/summer 2024 collections from...

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Carolina Herrera heading to Rio De Janeiro for resort show

Carolina Herrera will stage its first-ever catwalk show outside of New York for its resort 2024 collection in Rio De Janeiro. The show will take place on June 1 during sunset at an undisclosed location. The event will be a multi-day celebration, added the brand, culminating with a party for the global launch of the new Good Girl Blush eau de...

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Video: Carolina Herrera FW23

In this video you can see the Carolina Herrera FW23 collection presented at New York Fashion Week. FF Channel via Youtube

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NYFW SS22: Carolina Herrera celebrates 40 years in fashion

For spring/summer 2022, Carolina Herrera’s creative director Wes Gordon celebrated four decades of fashion at the New York-based atelier, House of Herrera with a decadent collection filled with bold, vibrant ballgowns. Described as a “fresh tribute to the glamour, fun and irreverence of the early 1980s,” this is a collection inspired by the...

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Safilo signs eyewear licensing agreement with Carolina Herrera

Safilo and Carolina Herrera have announced a five-year global licensing agreement for the design, manufacture and distribution of Carolina Herrera branded eyewear. The company said in a statement that the licence agreement will be effective as of January 1, 2022. “Carolina Herrera is an iconic luxury fashion brand, both popular and valued...

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Carolina Herrera to release mini-documentary for NYFW

To celebrate Carolina Herrera’s presence at New York Fashion Week for the past four decades the luxury fashion house will air an intimate, never-seen-before conversation between Carolina Herrera and creative director Wes Gordon. Launching on September 14, 'The Conversation: Carolina Herrera and Wes Gordon’, is a four-part mini-documentary, where...

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Carolina Herrera brings color back to New York in FW20 show

Adding color to an increasingly dark world and porn stars strutting their stuff on the catwalk. Here are the latest highlights from New York Fashion Week: Herrera AW20/21 collection shows no lack of color Sweeping gowns in bright monochrome colors, including blues, greens and yellows, were the order of the day at Carolina Herrera's fall-winter...

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Carolina Herrera launches extended sizing with 11 Honoré

Carolina Herrera is expanding her offering to extended sizes. The Venezuelan fashion designer—known for dressing notable First Ladies—and her eponymous label has announced that it will be partnering with the size-inclusive luxury retail site 11 Honoré for the new launch. The American retailer will be the first to partner with the label to offer...

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Bridal Fashion Week Fall 2020 highlights

While ready-to-wear brands have just shown their spring/summer 2020 collections during New York, London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks, the biggest brands in bridal, ranging from Vera Wang to Monique Lhuillier and Galia Lahav showcased their autumn/winter 2020 bridal ranges as part of Bridal Fashion Week in New York. FashionUnited has picked out...

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Highlights of NYFW Spring/Summer 2020 day three

Take a look at the highlights from day three of New York Fashion Week on Monday. Wes Gordon's blooming collection Vibrant colours associated with California's blooming season inspired Wes Gordon's third collection as creative director of Carolina Herrera. The spring 2020 lineup showed that he is evolving the label since taking over from the...

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Designer shares how to take fashion inspiration without cultural appropriation amid claims

Italian designer Maurizio Galante gave a lesson Sunday in how to take inspiration from indigenous cultures without being accused of cultural appropriation. With the fashion world shaken this month by the Mexican government threatening legal against New York-based label Carolina Herrera for "ripping off" native designs, Galante gave Mexican...

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Is the fashion industry guilty of manipulating cultural heritage for financial gain?

The women embroiderers of the remote Mexican mountain village of Tenango de Doria made worldwide headlines this week when their government went to war with an American designer for "plagiarising" their patterns. Wes Gordon, the artistic director of the New York label founded by Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera, found himself accused of...