Nina Dobrev wasn’t attending Carolina Herrera’s Spring 2025 show at New York Fashion Week just to observe the parade ’80s polka dots and Georgia O’Keefe-coded blossom yellows. Her arrival in the front row, in a chic matching set designed by the house and styled by Kate Young, marked a long-anticipated fashion comeback for the actress.
“If I'm being completely honest and vulnerable, I've been sort of behind the scenes for the last four or five months because I had a pretty bad injury and surgery,” Dobrev tells me over the phone a few hours after the show. The Vampire Diaries star had sustained a severe knee injury after a dirt bike accident in May. She’s studiously tracked the “baby steps” of her recovery process on social media in the weeks since.
