The Importance of Being Elegant: Wes Gordon Fall 2012
Just weeks after receiving the Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Award for womenswear, Wes Gordon
presented a confident fall collection inside a cavernous warehouse at
Pier 59 studios. “I wanted to go darker and more dramatic this season
than I’ve ever gone before,” he said. “So it’s a little Rooney Mara
meets Great Expectations.” That’s not to say he switched his
uptown polish and shine for disheveled leather and ripped denim
(although the subtle addition of chain mail anklets draped over black
nappa and velvet pumps offered a dramatic, military touch), more that
this time around Gordon’s neoteric approach to old-school elegance—onyx
and gilt leopard brocade cocoon dresses and emerald silk peplum tops
paired with cropped, oxblood pants—carried with it the youthful attitude
of a modern girl who, in the designer’s words, “has a bit of bite!”
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