Wes Gordon is not afraid to say that he likes pretty. Speaking about his SS23 fashion show, the creative director at Carolina Herrera tells us, “I said backstage that I’m tired of apologising for saying it – and this collection was pretty with an exclamation point”.
The designer displayed his confidence at the helm of the American heritage brand through a boldly romantic collection of oversized balloon sleeves in hand-painted tea roses and peonies, ball skirts, feminine tailoring teamed with floral prints; and matching head-to-toe accessories. “It was an embrace of the things I personally love,” he says.
Taking inspiration from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s, his favourite childhood book, Wes imagined the four walls of the show venue within The Plaza hotel, New York, as if it was itself a secret garden. “All of these floral prints and colours were intertwining and mixing in the show line-up,” he explains, of
