Latin hedonism for Carolina Herrera

Bizet's Carmen plays in the air, breathing Mediterranean passion into the visual soundtrack conceived by Wes Gordon, looking at women of character. The creative at the lead of Carolina Herrera imagines the strength of the Maison's founder herself, with that bold energy becoming a narration of images ready to come to life from the sketches. Sculpted silhouettes emerge amidst that couture afflatus and a throbbing Latin soul, burning underneath the skin, never to be forgotten. The exuberance of large sleeves on a precise outerwear, with hypergeometric contrasts. The bodices are shaped on those elongated and carved lines on the necklines and opening holes on the back. Haute couture bows are a returning obsession, on the voluminous grand ball gown or to cinch the back of cuissard boots. But here is where sensuality meanders and moves with a dance step, with those ruffles going up the side as if preparing for a tango.

Colour as a controlled explosion, like the savoir faire of an aristocratic hostess, among brocaded micro-skirts that leave legs as long as highways uncovered and fauvist floral patterns that embrace the movements. With a final oversized volume of cloud-like tulle and a clean shirt worn over a puffy skirt, a symbol of Madame Herrera herself.

Judgment. Wes Gordon comes out on the super white catwalk and is joined by two men from the atelier in white coats. They are applauded on what is their last day at the Maison before retiring. A hymn to tradition that returns in the very spirit of the collection, which looks very much to a refined world of jetsetters, divided between social engagements and red carpets, as in a beautiful aristocratic boule de neige. (All rights reserved)