Fashion Week Highlight: Catching Up With Prabal Gurung
18.05.12
"It moves from dark hues to cool blues and ends with whites and golds." Indeed, the volatile opening looks call to mind lightning, blue flames, ice, and other awe-inducing forces of glory and destruction. Though it all ends on an airy, radiant note, Gurung's trip to the dark side left a lasting impression, with this showing destined to be seen as pivotal, both for the designer himself and the ideals of the city he designs in.
But multi-dimensional muses galvanize the Nepalese-born designer, who is rapidly ascending into the elite ranks of international designers. In August, Gurung told us he's interested in dressing smart women who go beyond the obvious and who espouse, and contribute, ideas that hold real-world relevance. A woman on a journey who is nonetheless a destination unto herself. With dramatic women as diverse as Lana Del Rey and Rooney Mara captivating him, his penchant for a light/dark mystique grows ever more potent.
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Source: RollingStone.com (blog)