Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera was honored on the thirty seventh annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on the John F. Kennedy Middle yesterday, Sept. 5. To rejoice the consideration, Mattel designed a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll in her likeness.
The doll is carrying a customized couture robe Herrera wore to the New York Metropolis Ballet’s Annual Fall Gala final October, which was designed by Wes Gordon, Inventive Director of Carolina Herrera.
“Carolina Herrera and Barbie are each icons synonymous with power in femininity,” Gordon says. “I used to be thrilled to attend the New York Metropolis Ballet Fall Gala final yr with Mrs. Herrera wearing certainly one of my designs, and to have this look in signature Herrera Pink and Pink immortalized on this means makes it all of the extra particular.”
The doll can be featured in an unique editorial on the @BarbieStyle Instagram together with two dolls carrying runway appears to be like from the Carolina Herrera Fall/Winter 2024 assortment. Three followers could have the possibility to personal these dolls by bidding for them within the Bidding For Good Public sale with proceeds going in direction of Fixing Children’ Most cancers, a company that funds breakthrough therapy choices to remedy youngsters with pediatric most cancers. The public sale goes dwell immediately, Sept. 6, and closes on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
“Barbie has all the time been a really particular doll for all the ladies I do know,” Herrera says. “Many have been created to characterize a number of variations of girls via the years, and I hope this one could make a number of youngsters very pleased via our donation to Fixing Child’s Most cancers.”
Barbie can even make an look at Carolina Herrera’s New York Trend Week present on Monday, Sept. 9.
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