Nordstrom taps Caroline Issa for debut collection

American department store group Nordstrom is preparing to launch its debut

collection with industry veteran Caroline Issa, fashion consultant and chief executive officer of the London-based Tank Group.

Known as 'The Nordstrom Signature x Caroline Issa,' the 25 piece collection is part of the department store's Signature series and is set to launch next year February in store as well as online.

Issa, best known for her unique fashion sense, has worked with the department store in the past and began her working as a management consultant in San Francisco, where Nordstrom became her 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,” said Issa to WWD.

“My own style is not wacky or crazy — it’s really easy.” Issa has injected her own sense of fashion into the debut collection, which features jackets, blazers, trousers, dresses, skirts and blouses made from fabric sourced from Italy.“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,” explained Issa. “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.”

Issa, who previously worked one summer in Milan as a model when she was seventeen, is also the face of the line's first collection. Prices for the collection range from 225 dollars to 2,995 dollars and further collections are set to be introduced seasonally all year round.