The best clothes enhance the wearer — her smile, her eyes, her outlook. Carolina Herrera’s fall collection offered Monday at New York Fashion Week highlighted what’s likely to be a trend for next season, and a welcome one at that: Modern styles that put the focus on a woman’s face thanks to high, interesting necklines.
No decollete and not a lot of leg, either. Attention was drawn upward as one model wore a hand-painted organza scarf with her navy wool suit with black grosgrain detail, and another wore a tweed suit with a fox-fur collar. There was a lovely lilac cashmere kaleidoscope-print scarf that complemented a cropped purple-wool jacket and slim silk mikado pant.