Caroline Issa Unveils Nordstorm Line for Spring

Launching in March, the first installment of the ‘Nordstrom Signature & Caroline Issa’ partnership will debut solely online and to fifty–five fortunate Nordstrom stores, including San Diego’s own Fashion Valley and University Towne Center locations. With four anticipated collections a year, the Spring 2015 collection will be the first of an ongoing collaboration, featuring 25 ready–to–wear pieces. Caroline Issa—a noted votary of chic street style—partnered with Nordstrom’s design director in order to craft the aesthetic of the collection and its design sensibility. Conversations regarding the collaboration began in early 2014 with Ms. Issa as the project’s decided muse, so the collection is bound to be entrenched in roots of versatile luxury featuring Issa’s signature ensembles: tailored jackets and trousers, elegant knits and cashmeres, and polished day–to–night foundation pieces.

But just who is Caroline Issa? The lady in question is anything but static: Canadian–born and American–educated, Issa is CEO of the Tank Group (consisting of Tank Magazine and becauselondon.com), a verified street–style star and, most recently, the face of her own ‘Nordstrom Signature’ line. The contemporary Renaissance woman graduated from the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and spent the beginning of her career as a management consultant for Nordstrom, Dr. Pepper/7-UP and Boots. Eventually, after a short stint in modeling, she moved to London to join Tank in its early years, developing the company’s publishing and consultancy wing. Nearly 12 years later, Issa resides as Fashion Director for both Tank and Because London magazines and serves as a creative consultant for several renowned luxury fashion brands. Furthermore, she served on the juries of both the Hyères and Les Rencontres d’Arles photography festivals and is on the British Fashion Counsel’s Fashion Forward award panel, supporting the emergence of new talent. In essence, Ms. Caroline Issa is not only well–versed in the fashion world but, more importantly, well–involved.

With a long–standing relationship dating back more than fifteen years, the storied American luxury retailer Nordstrom and style maven Caroline Issa have certainly crafted a perennially chic line. Ms. Issa ensured that each ensemble reflected her own personal tastes and desires: the former, timeless and classy; the latter, clothing that can be worn whenever and wherever. The ‘Nordstrom Signature & Caroline Issa’ collection will offer a year–round assortment—Spring, Pre-Fall, Fall and Resort collections—and, of course, hang effortlessly aside other designer labels in the retailer’s Collectors department. The ‘Nordstrom Signature & Caroline Issa’ collection officially hits stores in mid–March and, with prices ranging from $225 to $2,995, is bound to strike a chord with a wide variety of Nordstrom patrons.