Your Foolproof Recipe for Holiday-Dressing Success? Red Velvet
Photographed by Mikael Jansson, Vogue, November 20181/15Imaan Hammam in a crushed-velvet slip dress by Jonathan Simkhai and dangle earrings by Irene Neuwirth.
Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, September 19932/15Nadja Auermann in Isaac Mizrahi’s evening dress, “simply shaped and stripped of all detailing except for what’s built in—the lavish floral-flocked velvet fabric and the trailing train.”
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 15, 19523/15“Flattery, in the form of dark red velvet. A coat that’s a slim, wrapped shape might appear at five o’clock or anytime after. Designed by Ben Zuckerman.”
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh, Vogue, August 20124/15Marion Cotillard in Ralph Lauren Collection.
Photographed by David Sims, Vogue, May 20115/15Sasha Pivovarova in Alexander McQueen’s lamb-fur-trimmed embroidered maharaja’s jacket and a gold medallion belt over a silk tulle dress.
Photographed by John Rawlings, Vogue, September 1, 19596/15“Red velveting for a night when the dress you wear has to have the dinner-through-theater stage directions by rote.” Isabella Albonico in Harvey Berin.
Photographed by Frances McLaughlin-Gill, Vogue, November 1, 19527/15“Evening white swept with red [from Balenciaga]. Here: about as much beauty as can be fitted between lines. . . . The red velvet stole, an important independent fashion—and a beautiful one with white.”
Illustrated by Eric, Vogue, August 1, 19548/15This ruby red velvet dress, by Ceil Chapman, is “just possibly the most beautiful young red ball dress of the year,” Vogue noted in 1954. “We’d buy it its own suitcase, treat it to only the best dry cleaners, and treasure it for the next 50 dances.”
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, May 20049/15Nicole Kidman in a draped, cerise velvet column lined in chartreuse chiffon by Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture.
Photographed by Elia Kazan, Vogue, October 1, 196010/15“Jet spangles, lace, and burgundy velvet—an evening dress as tailored as a sweater and skirt, yet meant for the greatest galas of the year. By Samuel Winston.”
Photographed by Arthur Elgort, Vogue, September 199211/15Claudia Schiffer by Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis captures “the spirit of the ’70s . . . in red-hot velvet.”
Photographed by Gianni Penati, Vogue, August 1, 196912/15Actress Brigitte Fossey in a red velvet jumper over a sheer embroidered blouse and stockings.
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, September 200513/15Lisa Cant in a “Tudor fantasy in red velvet” from Dior Haute Couture.
“A Tudor fantasy in red velvet.”
Photographed by Maciek Pozoga, Vogue, August 201714/15Susie Cave in her own The Vampire’s Wife velvet dress.
Photographed by Helmut Newton, Vogue, October 15, 196315/15“The fashion instinct for red: It’s special . . . it’s a matter of temperament, looks, or both . . . sweeping-the-country is not its style . . . neither is chic-on-a-shoestring . . . but the woman who has a sure fashion instinct for red wears it with all the engaging dazzle of a handful of lucky stars. . . . Wear it as it’s shown here, in a melting blaze of color—shades of mauve, claret, flame, and geranium, patters of fern. . . . By Sarmi. Richelieu jewelry of massed ruby and jet crystal beads.”
Christian Lacroix is Laird Borrelli-Persson’s fashion raison d’etre; the way he combined romance and historicism set her on the path she is following today. Borrelli-Persson studied literature at Boston College, spending her junior year abroad at Oxford, where she added some art history. After graduation she moved to New York to intern ... Read More