Does a butterfly know it was once a caterpillar? How do we fill those fleeting moments between beginning and end, joy and despair?
With moody luxury clothes, of course.
Prabal Gurung was thinking deep this season. He installed a mirrored square runway reflecting an opulent blue light display at the main branch of the New York Public Library for a fashion week show Friday exploring the Buddhist concept of \u201canichya,\u201d or impermanence.
In butterfly motifs, wool jackets and hues of vermilion, saffron, burgundy and dusty pinks, Gurung was thinking of his homeland, Nepal, where he hasn\u2019t been since before the pandemic. He was motivated by a 10-day meditative retreat he recently experienced to \u201csilence everything.\u201d
\u201cIn Nepal, we talk about it all the time, what is present and how soon it can go,\u201d he told The Associated Press in a backstage interview. \u201cAnd there\u2019s actually an optimism to that, especially during these challenging times.\u201d
The idea, in part, was finding hope \u201cin the dark places,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s light after darkness.\u201d
His silhouettes were sharper and longer this time around. His asymmetry challenged the idea of harmony. He draped softly and provided sharp angles at the same time. There were fluid, gliding skirts, wool jackets and glitzy golds and crystals.
In short, Gurung explained, New York Fashion Week for him was a \u201cmagical, mystery journey. An inward spiritual journey\u201d taken at night back home in Nepal.
Moody, yes, but hopeful in turquoise and emerald silk organza, a black leather cropped jacket with a pink shearling collar and his butterfly print in a high-low, high-neck dress of black and white, and another in sheer red and black with sexy cutouts at the hip. There was an oversized sweater in an ivory and yellow butterfly knit and a pink and scarlet embroidered cocoon coat.
\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of strength to it,\u201d Gurung said.
All grew from the silence on his 10-day vipassana retreat, where reading, phones and exercise were banned. On the third day, a painted lady butterfly landed on his window, \u201cand it gave me something to ponder.\u201d
Having grown up with \u201cimpermanence,\u201d Gurung said, he wanted to embrace the notion that nothing is fixed but constant shifts need not be feared. They must me embraced, he said, and he\u2019s got just the right clothes for the job.
Kelsea Ballerini, who stunned in a yellow gown by Gurung at the Grammys, was among his front row guests. She was accompanied by Becky G and Alyah Chanelle Scott. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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