Photo: Moez Achour
American fashion retailer Nordstrom has tapped Caroline Issa to design and front its next Signature line, a 25-piece collection set to launch in the Spring of 2015.
Both are familiar with fashion collaborations; Nordstrom tied up with Sarah Jessica Parker to launch her eponymous shoe line earlier this year while Issa, publisher and fashion director of the London-based Tank Group and a street style favorite, previously partnered with high street brand L.K. Bennett and more recently with Riyadh-based Baraboux to co-design its Fall 2014 handbag line.
The forthcoming Nordstrom Signature x Caroline Issa collection marks the beginning of an ongoing relationship for both parties, and will be released seasonally year-round, including pre-fall.
Coincidently, Issa, whose father is half Lebanese, half Iranian, had a brief stint working with Nordstrom at the start of her career, when she started out as a management consultant in San Francisco. “Nordstrom was my first client. I got to work on the account for six months. Fifteen years later, here I am working with them again…it’s a wonderful full circle,” she said to WWD.
The capsule collection will range from US $225 – $2,995 (AED/SAR 825 – 11,000) and offer versatile staples to fit a modern, active woman’s wardrobe. Of her inspirations, Issa said:
“I was going back into some images that I’d always been collecting…women like Seventies-era Lauren Hutton and Bianca Jagger in her white suit. I was also looking at some of my friends today who inspire me—Jenna Lyons, Inès de la Fressange. All of that kind of melted into the first collection.”
“[Caroline] is a well-regarded style icon and, moreover, is curious, really smart, chic, and charming,” added Pete Nordstrom, the retailer’s president of merchandising.
The line, which includes jackets, blazers, trousers, dresses, skirts, sweaters, blouses and camisoles—with fabrics sourced from Italy—will launch at 53 Nordstrom stores and on nordstrom.com in February.
