The fashion world has always relied on its young DJ darlings du jour to blast its armies of models down fashion week runways on dirty, thumping beats. But on Monday, Venezuelan-American fashion designer Carolina Herrera will
send her girls down the fall/winter 2013 New York Fashion Week runway
to a five-minute classical music pastiche called "Capriccio for
Carolina" by English composer Tom Hodge, adapted from Beethoven’s
Kreutzer Sonata.
Herrara commissioned the new work (which cost $40,000 to produce) after tapping Hodge's eclectic Paganini Rocks in one of her past shows, Youtube above.
In Milan, however, leave it to the Italian fashion houses to faithfully tap into their classical music roots -- we've heard Pavarotti and Verdi overtures at Dolce & Gabbana shows and Cavalli, despite runway beats, often wheels out a grand piano pre-show, twinkling with Chopin.