{"id":38,"date":"2009-02-17T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modacycle.com\/wordpress\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-10-11T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T13:33:11","slug":"carolina-herrera-fall-2009-a-sermon-in-the-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/2009\/02\/17\/carolina-herrera-fall-2009-a-sermon-in-the-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Herrera Fall 2009 &#8211; A Sermon In The Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>story by Freda Henry and Charles Beckwith<br \/>\nphotos by Freda Henry and Adrianna Favero<\/p>\n<p>For last fall, Carolina Herrera produced an array of stylish looks that seemed inspired by the leisure of English hunting parties and 60&#8217;s uptown girls. Models paraded out onto a bright runway with feathers literally in their caps, clad in double breasted power vests, and wearing riding boots obviously meant for strutting.<\/p>\n<p>This time, no such affectations. Clean lines, elegance held close to the body. Braiding and silk cascade gracefully to a far more conservative tune, with elegant embroidery providing inborn detail.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/mcj_blogger_legacy_images\/JournalCarolinaHerrera_resize-712800.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/mcj_blogger_legacy_images\/detailCH3_resize-712691.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/div>\n<p>Standouts in the collection included several elegant evening gowns, but the sculpted green numbers, one with long partial sleeves that seemed to plunge from a formidable scarf, and another in silver-green with aggressive crop cut seams around the waist and shoulders were extraordinarily representative of an artist at the top of her craft.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/mcj_blogger_legacy_images\/carolinaGreen_resize-716663.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/mcj_blogger_legacy_images\/CarolinaHerera_resize1-741246.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The times they are a-changin&#8217;, and appearing confidently in her trademark simple white blouse at the end of this year&#8217;s long black runway, Herrera seems to be telling last year&#8217;s carefree girls to grow up a bit and brace themselves for what is coming.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modacycle.com\/mcj_blogger_legacy_images\/CarolinaHerrera1_resize-741265.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For last fall, Carolina Herrera produced an array of stylish looks that seemed inspired by the leisure of English hunting parties and 60&#8217;s uptown girls. 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Braiding and silk cascade gracefully to a far more conservative tune, with elegant embroidery providing inborn detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,34],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carolina-herrera","tag-fall-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modacycle.com\/old_modacycle_jan_2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}