US EditionCarolina Herrera Show Turns Madrid Into a Global Stage for Fashion, Music, and Cinema
Creative director Wes Gordon expanded the show to 61 looks on a 450-meter runway, integrating collaborations with five Spanish creatives inspired by Madrid's cultural history.
- On Thursday, Carolina Herrera presented its spring-summer 2026 collection at Madrid's Plaza Mayor, marking its first main show outside New York in over 40 years.
- Creative director Wes Gordon led the event, collaborating with five Spanish artists and citing Madrid's golden age and La Movida as key inspirations.
- The show featured 78 pieces on a 450-meter pink runway, hosted 1,500 guests including Pedro Almodóvar, and merged fashion with cinema, music, and art.
- Gordon expressed that since attendees were traveling a long distance, it was important to deliver an impressive event, highlighting Madrid’s emergence as a vibrant cultural hub.
- This event underscored a shift towards iconic venues in global fashion and positioned Madrid as a dynamic hub for creative collaboration and cultural spectacle.
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Carolina Herrera Charges Madrid's Plaza Mayor for Spring 2026
Courtesy of Carolina HerreraA typical runway show lasts eight minutes or so and consists of 35 to 40 outfits; models walk up and down a catwalk about the length of a city block; the audience is made up of three or four hundred guests. For his latest Carolina Herrera show, creative director Wes Gordon doubled the amount of looks, carpeted a 450-meter-long runway, and invited 1,500 guests. The backdrop for his parade of sumptuous ball gowns, carna…
New York firm has presented its collection for spring/summer 2026 in the capital during Spanish fashion week, although outside the official calendar
Carolina Herrera show turns Madrid into a global stage for fashion, music, and cinema
Madrid (EFE).— Carolina Herrera staged its main runway show in Madrid’s Plaza Mayor on Thursday, marking the first time in more than four decades that the fashion house departed from its usual base in New York to present a collection. The event drew more than 800 attendees and a strong presence from the world of ...
The Plaza Mayor of Madrid, the place where the Carolina Herrera parade was held on Thursday, was more than a stage. Not only because of the dimensions of an unusual presentation in the capital, which has brought together 800 guests —150 of them international— and has seated artists such as Sebastian Yatra, Amaia, Becky G, Tokischa or Bb trickz, it primordial girls like Olivia Palermo and Alexa Chung on the same bench, models like Vittoria Cerett…
Madrid, 18 Sep (EFE).- The fashion house of the designer Carolina Herrera has chosen the Plaza Mayor of Madrid to present her new collection, an event attended by personalities of the culture, among them Pedro Almodóvar, Sebastián Yatra, Luis Fonsi, Amaia or Sybilla, in addition to the daughters of the Venezuelan designer Patricia and Carolina.
The Spanish model Miriam Sánchez has been in charge of opening the parade of the collection of ‘Primavera 26’, by Carolina Herrera, in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid, with which Wes Gordon, its creative director, has wanted to write a letter of love to the city that describes as a place full of contrasts, with [...] The entry Carolina Herrera pays homage to Madrid castizo with designs for a global woman was first published in Foco Informativa.
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