Fashion Week | Prabal Gurung gives loving attention to the imperfections of the world

Prabal Gurung sent his models down a long and bumpy runway at New York Fashion Week in the shadow of the United Nations. He said.

The designer told The Associated Press that he found the building on Manhattan’s East Side while riding his bike through United Nations consulates and nonprofit organizations. He turned it into an all-white runway that featured expressive metallics, slavish looks and neon lights.

“I wanted to create a space for this particular show about how we felt in the culture: politically, culturally uncertain but still hopeful, we wanted to be optimistic,” he said. I had to be near the UN reminder that our fashion will not work until we are active and vigilant.

Last year, Gurung said, his hope and optimism was fading as “the status quo, the patriarchy,” seemed more undaunted by those who opposed “reformist values.”

To find some happiness again, and to possess it, he wrote in his manifesto, he ventured into the outer boroughs of New York City. The fire that my mother gave me when I was a child.”

So how did that translate to the latest spring collection on the clean white runway?

In a fiery red mini dress. A hand draped dress paired with a jet black bodysuit with crepe chiffon. Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, dressed in a white corset jumpsuit and barely-there shirt with a black leather lambskin miniskirt.

He often referred to his wives as “my family, my tribe, my friends.” As a creative person, Gurung has proven that Epidemic is more interested in telling stories than simply sending clothes down the runway.

The story continued with a bright pink dress in hand-embroidered sequins and multicolored ostrich feathers, acid wash denim corset blazer and fuchsia and black mesh goddess gown. There was a tulle dress in soft pink and black and another in soft blue and black. In Lila there were piping shorts and a one-shoulder dress.

Gurung’s crisp cobalt blue trousers paired with an equally long-sleeved shirt in chartreuse, which opened to reveal a black bralette, looked more fluid. Of course it was a different direction for Gurang.

“I wanted to create an experience instead of doing a regular show,” he told the AP. “Storytellers are healers.”