• Fashion news 2009, Herrera lures Russians with boutique show


    20 December 2009

    Designer Carolina Herrera acknowledges the crowd after her Carolina Herrera collection show at New York Fashion Week

    Fashion news 2009  – Designer Carolina Herrera acknowledges the crowd after her show at New York Fashion Week, February 16

    American fashion designer Carolina Herrera followed in the footsteps of her sartorial colleague Giorgio Armani this week by vying for a piece of Russia's recovering luxury good market -- the world's fourth largest.

    Herrera, who dressed Jackie Kennedy Onassis in her later years, came to open her first boutique at the plush TSUM shopping center in Moscow's heart and host a show of her linen-woven Spring 2010 collection.

    The 70-year-old designer is betting -- just like Armani, who descended on the Russian capital in October -- that Russian fashion followers, once known for their exuberant spending, will help expand her business.

    Other designers remain uncertain about the country's recovery from a recession that wiped out a tenth of its economy in gross domestic product terms in the first half of the year.

    Alexander McQueen and Stella McCartney boarded the windows of their boutiques less than a year and a half after opening, while others were forced to deal with drastically dropping sales.

     

    (Yahoo fashion news)

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