“Last season, because we showed in Mexico City, we showed pre-season as see now, buy now, so we were in that same mentality,” Wes Gordon said at the Carolina Herrera showroom of his resort 2026 collection. The line is hitting stores, and followed his third international runway show, held for spring 2026 in Madrid in September.
During a collection preview, Gordon said he was headed to Disney with his two young children for the Thanksgiving holiday, and had recently returned from a trip to St. Louis. During the Nov. 18 trip, Gordon was honored by the St. Louis Fashion Fund and celebrated by the city’s mayor, Cara Spencer, who presented a proclamation that the date was “Wes Gordon Day in St. Louis.” Come February, the designer said he’ll be back in New York for Herrera’s next show.
Gordon’s resort collection homed in on global inspirations, but here rooted in ancient Greece — “the ideas of mythology and women as a goddess,” he said of his “Mythos” titled lineup. He turned those inspirations into clean, modern interpretations with ample linear silhouettes and fresh, Aegean hues.
Black and gold embroideries on an elegant tulle gown; a gilded crochet dress, and debut Neoprene-bonded leather layers played into the ideas of mysticism, armor and strength, while his fresco-inspired painterly florals and Grecian temple embroideries on Herrera’s signature oversize white cotton shirt nicely blended the house codes with his new inspirations.
But Gordon continued to lean into romanticism and beauty with his balance of the sculptural and the more fluid. For instance, his white corset pleated silk faille mini versus his modern takes on the goddess gowns, here as a one-shoulder gathered black chiffon number inspired by an original in silver lurex that Mrs. Carolina Herrera donned to Studio 54 (as seen on the cover of Interview Magazine’s 2021 collaborative magazine book with the brand). The idea was also translated into cute plissé day dresses and knit sets, while the idea of statues came to life through wool column maxi skirts and colorblocked gowns with caped, sashed and overskirted accents.
“It feels resort but powerful. I like that it’s the iconography of Herrera, but in a way that feels very fresh and in a full lifestyle offering,” Gordon aptly said of resort.