Wes Gordon delights with voluminous Carolina Herrera debut at New York Fashion Week
American models Hailey Baldwin and Lily Aldridge among show’s front-row celebrities impressed by creative director’s bold, brightly-coloured creations
The first show since creative director Wes Gordon took the reins at fashion brand Carolina Herrera saw him bring bright colours, bold prints and patterns, and voluminous evening dresses to the runway at New York Fashion Week.
“In a grey, scary, uncertain world, Herrera should be that rainbow in your wardrobe,” Gordon said after his spring-summer 2019 collection show on Monday, which was staged amid paintings on the walls of the New-York Historical Society.
The Venezuelan-born designer Carolina Herrera, 79, stepped down as creative director of her eponymous brand in February.
Responsibility for label she carefully cultivated was handed to Gordon, who had worked under Herrera’s watchful eye for a year before taking over.
Guests were excited to see where Gordon would take the line.
This collection was really about colourful, happy clothes for a woman who’s not a wallflower and who just wants to zip up her dress and dance and smile
“Oh, I know her well, and I’m a great admirer of her and her fashion, of course,” American businesswoman and television personality Martha Stewart said of Herrera, the designer.