Palm Beach Was in Full Bloom as Cara Cara Feted Spring 2026 at The Colony Hotel

On Wednesday evening, the lawn of The Colony Hotel was suffused in the kind of cotton-candy glamour that has made the whimsical property the definitive social headquarters of Palm Beach since 1947. Beneath swaying palms and against the glow of the hotel’s famed blush-pink façade, Cara Cara founders Julia Workman Brown, Katie Hobbs, and Sasha Martin hosted an intimate cocktail and dinner to celebrate the label’s Spring 2026 collectsion.

The evening began poolside, where guests gathered as trays of signature cocktails and truffle-topped cheese puffs made the rounds. New York native Pamela Tick helmed the DJ booth during golden hour, spinning a Palm Royale-inspired soundtrack that set the tone for the night’s easy, breezy mood.

“I really wanted to hate Palm Beach,” Tick admitted with a laugh. “But that didn’t work out for me, and I fell madly in love with it. Palm Beach is the epitome of sun-drenched glamour.” She’s no stranger to The Colony either, having previously been the resident DJ for many swanky themed discos.

The crowd had donned painterly prints from Cara Cara’s latest offering–Bloomsfield ivory florals, Lillian lemon, Windsor blush, and Colette toile green–across breezy dresses and matching sets that felt expertly engineered for the signature Palm Beach palette. Double-kiss hellos were exchanged as locals reunited with the New York snowbirds in town, ready to thaw out from winter. Among the crowd were Veronica Webb with her daughter Molly Robb, Elizabeth Kurpis, Joey Wölffer, photographer Nick Mele and his wife Molly, Amanda Cummings, Callie Baker Holt, and Ellen Kavanaugh.

While not a Floridian by birth, Cara Cara cofounder Julia Workman Brown makes the pilgrimage south twice a month for her other great love: horseback riding in Wellington. When dreaming up the six-year-old brand, she describes the DNA as being rooted in joyful escapism. “It was a very simple manifesto,” she told Vogue. “I just wanted to create dresses that are fun—dresses I would want to wear, that my friends would want to wear. And we wanted them to have that dressmaker-level of detailing, but still accessible.”

Dinner was served beneath the patio’s lush Hanging Garden, where tables were dressed in bespoke linens splashed with Cara Cara’s Hudson scarf pink print. “This was actually one of Sasha’s mother’s blouses from the 1980s,” Workman Brown explained while pulling the tablecloth taut with pride to show off the tessellated print. The design team later reinterpreted the theme by adding strings of seashells and geometric borders.

Each place setting was also fittingly crowned with a scallop shell choker, which guests immediately started to loop around their necks, naturally completing the evening’s ensembles. Between courses, artist Alice Marcuz invited people to customize their necklaces with an edit of beads and baubles; a charming activity in between bites of Swifty’s menu staples like kale and crispy Brussels sprout Caesar salad, parmesan-crusted chicken roulade, and a sweet finale of key lime pie.

“This place just means joy and hedonism,” Workman Brown added. “We live in a serious world, but Palm Beach has this feeling of delight. And that’s really the ethos of our brand–escapism. How is this bringing joy to the customer? How is this delighting them? We’re not serious…we’re fun.”