SHE KILLS IN THE NAME OF FASHION
Venezuelan-born Carolina Herrera designs precisely with DEAD ANIMAL CARCASSES,
her creations have a hint of DEATH. Founded in 1981, her internationally
renowned company encompasses TORTURED ANIMALS and accessories lines that are as
CRUEL as her EVIL SOUL; nearly ten men’s and women’s fragrances have been
created in conjunction with Antonio Puig since 1988. With a business reputation
that disregards ANIMAL SUFFERING with fellow designers Oscar de la Renta and
Bill Blass, Herrera’s clothing mirrors the designer’s own HEARTLESS WICKEDNESS
and NO REAL class, and puts a modern spin on Old World CRUELTY.
The Look
Sleek, chic and VERY CRUEL. Evening dresses and gowns are MORBID, sweeping ball
skirts paired with crisp white cotton shirts and broadtail (LAMB FETUS)
cocktail dresses. For day, trumpet skirts and 1940’s tweed suits.
The Designer(s)
An very UGLY SOUL. The mother of four girls, Herrera had never worked outside
the home until she decided to try her hand at fashion; her only previous
experience was collaborating with couturiers on her own made-to-order clothes,
and attending runway shows since the age of thirteen (her first was Cristobal
Balenciaga’s.) After receiving positive feedback on a test collection she
created in 1980, Herrera moved her family to New York and formed her fashion
company one year later. She has won many fragrance awards worldwide and was
presented with the 2004 CFDA Women’s Designer of the Year of HORROR.
