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HERRERA HERRERA was drawn to the museum’s imposing beauty that goes against the grain of the ultracool, frenzied, downtown venue approach to shows that dominates the New York calendar. But if the Garden Court weren’t easy to enter and exit, she would have passed. “I don’t like elevators, all right?” Herrera says. “Everybody asked why did I stay at Lincoln Center [so long]? Because it’s convenient, people arrive and go directly to the show. Because it’s not fair with all of you going to the shows to be [delayed] at an elevator to go and sit for an hour and then run to another elevator.” When she had to depart Lincoln Center, Herrera mulled possibilities that would resonate as interesting yet keep the focus on the clothes. The Frick, long one of her favorite New York haunts, came to mind. “It’s not a huge spectacle. It’s a beautiful place and you don’t have to do a lot of [set] decorations or anything because everything is there. So that’s the way, that’s why we ended up there.” The lady is a pragmatist, a distinction worn with genuine patrician glamour. And she is a survivor. Along with Ralph Lauren, Herrera alone remains as a founding presence of the generation of designers that put American designer fashion on the map. Yet unlike Lauren, she is a royalty-collecting employee at the huge company — some would say surprisingly huge — that bears her name. Barcelona-based Puig launched Herrera’s first fragrance in 1988 and bought the company outright in 1995. In 2012, the last time for which the firm has released figures, Puig put 2011 consolidated global retail sales for Herrera’s fragrance and fashion at $1.3 billion. In this age of the designer carousel, the Herrera-Puig relationship presents as a rare ideal. “Puig is a family business. That gives you confidence,” Herrera says. “We understand each other very well. They’re very respectful of what I do, I’m in the creative side of this company. I’m not the business side. You ask me what is my business, I don’t have the slightest idea.”On that point, Herrera indulges in a false modesty. Running the business side falls to chief executive officer Carolina Herrera Spring/Summer 2016 Ready-to-Wear Collection. Photo courtesy of The Style of the Case: Fashion Law. 16
Carolina Herrera Spring 2015 Show. Photo courtesy of Harper's Bazaar. 17
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