Wes Gordon will design costumes for the Recent York City Ballet this fall on behalf of the Carolina Herrera brand.

Gordon is the only real dressmaker participating on this 12 months’s fall gala, which may also mark the kickoff for City Ballet’s seventy fifth anniversary 12 months.

Previous NYCB fall galas have focused on premiering recent works from rising choreographic talents alongside costumes from essential fashion designers. Given the corporate’s significant anniversary, this 12 months’s event will as a substitute stage two works which are elemental to City Ballet’s history.

With that, Gordon will envision recent costumes for Balanchine’s 1970 work “Who Cares?” The George Gershwin-scored piece was created as a jazzy, hell-of-a-town type homage to Recent York City’s bustling energy. For its fall gala, City Ballet will stage excerpts from the piece featuring 10 dancers in recent looks designed by Gordon.

“As a Recent Yorker, I look forward every 12 months to NYCB’s fall season and gala. I even have attended quite a few times and have all the time dreamt of being the guest designer; it’s an amazing honor. I even have been a longtime fan of Wendy Whelan, associate artistic director of NYCB — having photographed her in partnership with Elizaveta Porodina for our fall 2020 collection — and I’m excited to work together with her and the NYCB costume shop on this project,” Gordon told WWD.

While Gordon has not seen “Who Cares?” live, he’s watched archival footage as research for his designs. “It’s a really fitting piece for Herrera — high energy, fun and [a] celebration of Recent York,” he said.

As in past years, Gordon will work side-by-side with City Ballet costume director Marc Happel and the corporate’s in-house atelier of seamstresses and costume technicians.

Happel said the costumes in “Who Cares?” were ripe for reinvention. “There may be opportunity to bring recent sophistication and elements of the town to the costume design for the ballet. ‘Who Cares?’ is bubbly like Champagne, effervescent just like the city itself. It’s an entertaining and uplifting ballet, with numerous old Recent York period design about it. I used to be thrilled when Wes Gordon signed on to revamp it, I even have all the time thought he can be a terrific designer to bring to NYCB. His collections for Carolina Herrera have a chic sophistication but in addition playfulness about them.”

“Who Cares?” last got a wardrobe update in 2013 with costumes by Santo Loquasto, which were designed for the piece’s full solid and 40-minute run.

City Ballet’s seventy fifth anniversary fall gala is scheduled for Oct. 5 and may also include a full run of Jerome Robbins’ “Glass Pieces,” with a rating by Philip Glass. On Oct. 11, the corporate will stage a one-night-only tribute to its anniversary, staging the identical program from its inaugural performance, which was held on Oct. 11, 1948.