Venezuelan trend designer Carolina Herrera was honored on the thirty seventh annual Hispanic Heritage Awards on the John F. Kennedy Heart 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, Artistic Director of Carolina Herrera.
“Carolina Herrera and Barbie are each icons synonymous with energy in femininity,” Gordon says. “I used to be thrilled to attend the New York Metropolis Ballet Fall Gala final yr with Mrs. Herrera wearing one in all my designs, and to have this look in signature Herrera Pink and Pink immortalized on this manner makes it all of the extra particular.”
The doll will likely be featured in an unique editorial on the @BarbieStyle Instagram together with two dolls carrying runway appears from the Carolina Herrera Fall/Winter 2024 assortment. Three followers could have the prospect to personal these dolls by bidding for them within the Bidding For Good Public sale with proceeds going in the direction of Fixing Youngsters’ Most cancers, a company that funds breakthrough remedy choices to remedy youngsters with pediatric most cancers. The public sale goes stay right now, Sept. 6, and closes on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
“Barbie has at all times been a really particular doll for all the ladies I do know,” Herrera says. “Many have been created to signify a number of variations of ladies by means of the years, and I hope this one could make numerous youngsters very pleased by means of 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.
