The Carolina Herrera resort show was rain-soaked in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday night, but it didn’t dampen the Alegria de Vivre of Wes Gordon’s buoyant collection.
For the house’s first resort runway show, the designer brought Herrera from the ballroom to the beach, contrasting New York City-sophisticate black-and-white with a Copacabana rainbow palette.
“We’re taking Herrera codes and giving them Rio energy,” Gordon…