Prabal Gurung 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.
The Prabal Gurung collection is modeled during Fashion Week, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in New York. – Does a butterfly know it was once a caterpillar? How do we fill those fleeting moments between beginning and end, joy and despair?Prabal Gurung was thinking deep this season.
In short, Gurung explained, New York Fashion Week for him was a “magical, mystery journey. An inward spiritual journey” taken at night back home in Nepal. There was an oversized sweater in an ivory and yellow butterfly knit and a pink and scarlet embroidered cocoon coat.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, “and it gave me something to ponder.”