Prabal Gurung S/S 2014 New York

[Marc10]

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[Marc10]

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[gossiping]

i don't understand

his point of view is always so good, i love what he does. this is totally different and it's just not individual any more

 

[juanpyx]

Well.. you know .... "Prada-l Gurung"

 

[LolaSvelt]

That's the problem with these New York designers: always a mish-mash of other designers; completely devoid of any creativity. They just jump from one trend to the next which results in a complete lack of consistency as a designer.

 

[Moofins]

Mimicry aside, I'm really thankful to see some color in a collection.

 

[shanhuq]

this is beyond hideous I didn't think this man can do any worse but he beats himself every season

 

[dodencebt]

That white coat with yellow insides is the most under designed piece of clothing I have seen walk down a runway in a long time. I don't even know if I can call it a coat cause it doesn't even have all the elements of a basic coat.

 

[GivenchyHomme]

Finally a collection that isn't 90's calvin-esque. He gave us that at least.

 

[lelaid]

What a miss. This seriously looks like a pile of Dior rejects and Prada remakes done in cheap satin.

 

[christian zh]

Full Show

 

[GERGIN]

Hmmm, I'm not going on the designer knockoff bandwagon this time around...if I've known the designer to do for some time now is mid length, tailored dresses (I remember his s/s 2011 collection very well) so yeah ok, he prints and colors aren't exactly original...Prabal's use of color seems too forced and less edited all the time it just ruins potentially good clothes. It's an improvement in my opinion only because he's going back to something that made me familiar with him in the first place. All his past collections definitely did not feel to true to him. So this is somewhat of an improvement.

 

[TianSoFine]

1. I hate the makeup.
2. The thing about Prada's stuff is that only Prada can pull it off.

 

[elle_gb]

I don't mind its lookalike but I feel this is his interpretation, you look at a certain detail and you'll see such different as long as it's fresh i think this is good collection.

 

[simple_elegance]

YIKES...that is all I can say...

 

[Bernadette]

September 07, 2013 New York
By Nicole Phelps

Prabal Gurung keeps the First Lady and Lady Gaga in frocks. For Spring his muse was Marilyn Monroe. "It's a celebration of the elegant woman; she's becoming an endangered species," he said before his show. "I wanted to put her in a modern context." Gurung's idealized creature this season comes with a bite. Monroe's last sitting with Bert Stern was on his mood board. And roses. "They're beautiful for their looks," he said, "but also their thorns."

The mood was mid-century, only amped way, way up with pastels and acid brights—colors that practically pulsated under the fluorescent lights of the clear plastic-encased set. But if the silhouettes—wiggle dresses, grand opera coats, narrow pencil skirts with deep back vents—said 1950s, the execution was twenty-first century high-tech. The understated white cotton poplin sheath he opened the show with exposed a molded plastic harness in back (there's that bite). The tweed bouclé he used for a skirtsuit earned the term "technical," woven as it was on plastic thread. And only after much cajoling did his factory agree to try screen-printing a translucent PVC raincoat with his voluptuous abstract rose motif.

Some of the plastic pieces were too futuristic and experimental for their own good—try sitting down in a PVC pencil skirt. But Gurung got into a groove with the final third of his show. The quartet of strapless satin numbers with exposed corsets and cascades of ruffles down the back were a riposte to the insipid red-carpet fare Hollywood tends to favor. And it will be a very lucky girl who gets to wear his white-and-black sweetheart gown with the exuberant sash at the waist.

Raf Simons' recent collections were an undeniable influence here. Gurung might never lead the fashion conversation like the Belgian who is now running Dior. Still, he's an accomplished technician. He cuts a mean, mean dress.

Source: style.com

 

[loladonna]

He deserves a medal if he's able to make a collection look like a combination of Prada, Dior, Givenchy, Christopher Kane, Miu Miu..etc.

This collection looks very Prabal Gurung to me.

 

[PonyShow]

Dior, Prada, Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs...OMG this is so all over the place.
Awful colection.

Agreed!! It's like a mashup of these 4 designers.

 

[Nymphaea]

Five Minutes With: Prabal Gurung, Spring 2014
The New York favorite shares the inspiration behind his latest collection.

Harper's Bazaar: What were you thinking about with the glass case idea?

Prabal Gurung: The whole inspiration started with celebrating the preservation of an elegant woman, who’s always been a source of inspiration and intrigue for me. Basically what I wanted to do was a modernized context of an ideal woman, someone who’s colorful, bold, strong and sensual with just a bit of danger, like femininity with a bite. I’ve always found it interesting that when I look at a woman, she’s beautiful and everything, but there’s an inner strength.

HB: Can you tell us about the color palette? There were so many amazing colors.

PG: To me it was all about celebrating every aspect of being a woman. The colors, I always find, are an ode to all the women I love and women in general. I find them so fascinating because of their complexities and layers.

HB: Anyone in particular?

PG: All of them! All my friends that I know, because what you guys say is not exactly what you mean. It’s never straightforward. So that layering is what you’ll see with the plastic concept—the beautiful couture fabrics are completely lacquered and plasticized, so it comes in a more preserved sense but also modern.

HB: Any fabrics you used for the first time this season?

PG: A lot of it! I worked with the mills in Italy and they’ve never done things like that, printing on plastic. They’re doing it for the first time. There was this blue lace and it was traditional lace but more lacquered and plastic and they were like, “how can we do this?”

HB: So what was the main inspiration for the collection?

PG: I’d seen this image with Marilyn [Monroe] at the last sitting and I thought, in the ‘50s, Marilyn Monroe was the most idolized, most wanted woman, but yet she was so lonely and melancholic. The melancholic feel to her was what I wanted to create and suggest with the music and the setting. I wanted to give an ode to her, a nod to her.

HB: How are you celebrating?

PG: Tonight with Ciara! I can’t wait.

harpersbazaar.com

 

[|PerfectTonight|]

He's never been original with his designs. This time however he manages to make the collection cohesive and interesting both colour and silhouette wise.