It is undeniable: women like Carolina HerreraThey contribute to the world their particular vision, and in doing so, they change everything. Maybe that’s why we are so interested in knowing the minutiae that make up their world. How do you dress every morning a woman who has dressed personalities such as Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift or Tina Frey? What breakfast a woman who has left her mark forever in the fashion world?
One of the questions that we ask ourselves tandem fashion-literature (because yes, they are much more related than you imagine) is what Carolina Herrera reads. Luckily, we have the answer in an interview that the designer granted to CNN, in which He confessed the title of a certain book that, he says, “can be read again and again.”
Servant has read it, and I can assure that Herrera has all the reason for the world. Because the author after this title that we will soon reveal you was also a woman who leaves a mark. One with such a special vision of the world that has gone through borders and centuries of history to remain one of the most read authors in the world.
Two women, two footprints
You may not have read the book, but you know the story. And you do it because he has had not one, but with nine adaptations to cinema and television. “It is a universally recognized truth that a single man possessing a good fortune must need a wife”, He writes in one of the most famous lines of his novel. You still don’t know what work we are talking about? Then let me talk about Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.
Of course, We are talking about Pride and prejudiceof the great Jane Austen, which is Carolina Herrera’s favorite novel. Personally, I am not surprised. Jane Austen’s novel is full of elegance and sophistication, very in tune with the aesthetics of the designer, who has always defended a classic, feminine and timeless style.
Do you see how fashion and literature have much more than you imagine? The protagonist of the novel is also also a reason to love the novel. I am sure that Carolina Herrera will be attracted to this feminine strength, because Elizabeth Bennet is not a woman to use. She does not get carried away by social expectations, something that fits with the type of woman that Herrera has confessed to admire and dress: safe, independent and elegant without the need for exaggeration.
Pride and prejudice It is, in the end, A love story that does not remain superficial, but deepens the emotional evolution of each character. In the novel, Austen portrays a world where forms matter, but never more than the content, something that Herrera’s firm represents in fashion, combining the aesthetic with the essential. She not only designs clothes that she leaves breathless, also has a solid speech after her vision of women.
You will not miss reasons
when reading the title of the novel, the alarms have jumped. It happens to all when we face the first reading of a classic, But I assure you that with Pride and prejudice You have plenty of reasons to start reading it.
Unlike other classics, which require a certain mood to face reading, Austen’s work is characterized by having a deep prose, but that is not heavy. Get transporting the center of the story with his words, you see every thing he describes as if you are there, walking through Pemberley or Longbourn, accompanying the Bennet Oa Mr. Darcy sisters in their cavilations.
In addition, and although this may vary from one edition to another, the chapters are generally short and very shocking. This makes you get hooked easily and that, without realizing it, you are finishing the book in a week. As Herrera said, it is a book that you can read a thousand times without getting tired, because it is agile and very pleasant reading.
You’re going to fall in love
The enjoyable reading is not the only reason why I would recommend Pride and prejudice to any liteant of literature. And yes, I don’t care if your favorite genre is historical romance or science fiction, this Austen novel has something that falls in love with all equally.
Possibly, be the depth of your characters. In the story each has its place, why and its end. They are so well elaborated, that as you advance in the story you feel as if you knew them. You see them evolve in parallel to the plot, which is exciting and you will suffer and enjoy equal parts. And seeing them grow, you understand how much a person can change.
Because in the end, that is the real background of the novel. It is not just a wonderful romance, that too, but a story in which we discover that we can all change. That, suddenly, something happens in our lives and makes nothing like before.
It is also a fine lesson about irony and history, which invites us to take a look at the past to understand how things have changed (or not) for women. Because austen, like Herrera, did not allow it to be crowded in strict norms. He contributed his own world vision through a sublime novel that, in the present, more than two hundred years later, he still feels as relevant as the first day.
