Carolina Herrera adds jeans and desert florals for resort 2027

Carolina Herrera’s Resort 2027 collection opened a new lane for the house: its first blue jeans, cut straight and washed in deep indigo, worn not with casual basics but with a cropped lady jacket covered in micro blue and purple floral embroideries. That pairing set the tone for Wes Gordon’s latest argument that Herrera can do daytime ease and evening sophistication in the same breath.

Gordon said he wanted to zoom in on Georgia O’Keeffe, from the painter’s work to the New Mexico landscape around her home, Sol y Sombra. The result felt sunlit and controlled, with a palette pulled from O’Keeffe’s flowers and desert light: banana yellow, melon, claret, ultramarine, wisteria purple and geranium pink. Two new prints pushed the idea further, one painterly and floral, the other built around desert blooms, giving the collection the kind of pattern that reads as polished rather than precious.

The clothes leaned into the sort of pieces a Coastal Grandmother wardrobe can actually use. A silk gazar camp shirt, tied at the waist with a matching silk scarf, was worn with a lightweight printed mesh knit pencil skirt. There were silk pointelle knits for layering, cropped tie-front cotton shirts for warm afternoons, fringed tweed sets for slightly dressier days, and sheer frocks embroidered with tiny flowers. For evening, Gordon kept Herrera’s signature authority intact with sequin-covered knit dresses and red, yellow and blue gowns finished with peek-a-boo cutouts. He made the point plainly, saying the brand has “45 years of doing evening.”

That balance matters because the house is clearly trying to stretch its daytime register without blurring its identity. Carolina Herrera’s own history traces the brand back to Herrera’s first collection at The Metropolitan Club, launched with encouragement from Diana Vreeland, and notes that Gordon took over after Herrera’s final bow in fall 2018. The brand later expanded into bridal, menswear, accessories and fragrance, so a Resort 2027 lineup that adds denim and more accessories feels less like a detour than the next step in a larger modernization.

For resort dinners, garden parties and weekend travel, the message was clear: Herrera is still a place for occasion dressing, but Gordon wants that occasion to start earlier in the day.