Carolina Herrera
Designer: Carolina Herrera

• “New York may be shivering in the snow and icy rain, but Carolina Herrera’s fur-lined autumn-winter 2013 collection brought elegant warmth to Fashion Week.” [AFP]
• “Fur was a constant theme, even small bits of it. Whatever you’re wearing, the designer seemed to be saying, even if it’s not a coat or a jacket, there’s a spot for some luxurious fur.” [AP]
• “Describing her designs Ms Herrera, 74, states on the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week website: ‘I have a responsibility to the woman of today–to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.’ Indeed her fall ready-to-wear collection is made up of feminine and classic designs, from fur-trimmed trench coats, to ethereal floor-length gowns.” [The Daily Mail]
• “The Carolina Herrera show was elegant, refined and not at all over-the-top operatic–even if lush panels of fur in jeweled colors dressed up narrow tailored outfits and slender gowns.” [International Herald Tribune]
• “Carolina Herrera’s collection was also strong, though perhaps more predictable in its uptown tailoring and earth-tone tweeds and café-au-lait silks.” [The New York Times]
• “Fur stole the show at Carolina Herrera’s fashion show on Monday–fur in eye-catching hues and unusual places.” [Reuters]
• “Let the little guys fuss over pop hits and designer DJs. Herrera required the full symphonic talents of the London Contemporary Orchestra.” [Style.com]
• “This season, Herrera’s clothes have that same cinematic quality–if one thinks of the damn-the-expense extravaganzas that great Hollywood studio costumers such as Adrian and Travis Banton dreamt up for stars like Garbo, Crawford, and Dietrich.” [Vogue.com]
• “With hints of a Forties heroine in mind, Carolina Herrera designed a collection about glamour and gumption. These were clothes deserving of a woman who thinks nothing of commissioning her own original score, as Herrera did.” [WWD]