For her latest bridal offering, Carolina Herrera wanted to return to the beauty, elegance, and grandeur of her very first dress, created 35 years ago. With just seven dresses presented for Fall (Spring ’17 brought twice as many), the highlight here was a dress taking its cue from Herrera’s denim dress that opened her spring runway collection, but this time in layers of silk faille, resulting in a frothy, cascading frock. A structured counterpoint to the ball skirt was this season’s corset motif, featuring exposed boning. A similar technique was employed in a less grand—but equally majestic—high-neck, long-sleeved alençon lace dress, whose bustier-like bodice was covered in artfully placed florals. Illusion dressing was another effect employed by Herrera, most notably in one of her more minimal moments: a strapless silk mikado trumpet stunner with cut-outs just below the bust and at the sides—hinting that the posh princess bride may have a party side after all.
