Over the years the crème de la crème wore her exuberant yet pragmatic designs , including Jackie Onassis, Estée Lauder, and Caroline Kennedy, whose wedding dress Herrera created. First ladies and the Hollywood red carpet came calling, too.
To demonstrate, perhaps, how the brand has turned a page since she handed over design duties to Gordon in 2018, Herrera has declined all press interviews around the 40th anniversary, though she continues in her role as global brand ambassador. Gordon has opened the brand up to a wider world of power players, from Lena Waithe wearing a Herrera cape modeled after the rainbow Pride flag at the 2018 Met Gala to the first female U.S. vice president Kamala Harris in a suffragette white pantsuit and bow blouse for her 2020 victory speech, to reformed royal Meghan Markle in a poppy print dress urging COVID-19 vaccinations at the Vax Live concert in 2021.
“It was almost impossible to make clothes, especially a year ago, when we did our resort 2021 photo shoot and the only sign externally that COVID-19 had affected the collection was that we released the pictures four weeks late,” he said.
“Everyone’s safety is the most important thing and what goes hand in hand is peace of mind and comfort level,” Gordon said. “I’ve always wanted to do a presentation on the Upper East Side because it’s so much of our DNA, it’s where Mrs. Herrera presented her first collection, where our store is and where she lives off Park Avenue, but that dream has never been a reality because of physical limitations.
“I love that he keeps in contact with Mrs. Herrera — she is transmitting who she is, what she is and he is continuing that in a more relaxed, modern and younger way,” said Bouchet, who came to the U.S. from France. “The fact that she is a woman who was the founder of the company is so important to me. She is also an immigrant — to me this is what New York means — to give opportunity to whoever wants to take it and have the chance to be recognized around the world.
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