So much repeats in fashion, and yet, it seems, there are endless ways to mold shape. When you’re a fan of bold silhouettes, you notice this. An inch more here or an inch less there, can somehow alter much in the way a garment is perceived, and the message it conveys.
And so it was with Wes Gordon’s Fall Winter 2020 collection for the house of Carolina Herrera. Each shape was so special, that despite ultra-bold silhouettes currently being an integral part of any ‘wow’ collection from New York to Paris, these were all distinctive from their contemporaries. Each and every one. Lavish colors, jacquard, opulent fabrics, all mainstays of the house, were there in abundance, but what mostly stood out was the singularity of the silhouettes.
“My vision for fall is ‘the grand gesture,’” creative director Wes Gordon said backstage to Vogue.com. “When I was sketching or draping, I tried to identify the essence of what made the piece special; then, I went all in. It could be a sleeve shape, embroidery, or color, but it’s quite purified.”
Purified is the word that best describes Gordon’s approach here, and the obvious parallel is women, and well, people, themselves. If you were to distil your personality down to its essence, what does that look like? Every tuck and extension that causes a piece to take shape is like one’s individual difference.
“The old fashion rules have all gone away,” the 33-year-old designer added. “It’s about dressing for you, dressing your personality.” This collection had a lot of that.
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