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\"Prabal
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 08: A model walks the runway during the Prabal Gurung S\/S 2022 fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Robert F. Wagner Park on September 08, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prabal Gurung<\/a> is a designer whose work has always been inextricably linked to politics. In 2019\u2014at the height of Donald Trump\u2019s poisonous anti-immigrant rhetoric\u2014he used his 10th anniversary collection to make a defiant statement, sending models down the runway in sashes that read \u2018WHO GETS TO BE AMERICAN?\u2019 For spring summer \u201822<\/a>, politics was front and centre once again, with Gurung presenting a paean to the gender nonbinary movement, questioning \u2018Who gets to be a girl?\u2019 Politics was also sitting front row, in the form of Kathy Hochul, New York City\u2019s first female governor, and the replacement of Andrew Cuomo, who was ousted following an internal investigation of sexual harassment of female employees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The collection experimented with dualities. The opening look\u2014a bubble-hemmed pink gingham mini dress\u2014was roughed up with a cascading, oversized trench coat. Sharp suiting was relaxed with sorbet shades of lemon and pistachio. Evening wear in the form of short, sexy cocktail dresses were dressed down with sportswear-style shoes. Pieces flirted with fashion\u2019s neo-Noughties comeback\u2014long-sleeved, body-hugging dresses in tattoo-style graphic prints\u2014while still staying true to the pared-back American glamour that made Prabal Gurung a household name and red carpet favorite.<\/span><\/p>\n

But above all, the collection was a celebration of gender expression and experimentation. Male presenting models wore corsets and magenta eye makeup, exaggerated floral suiting, and asymmetric silk blouses. The notion that Gurung\u2019s pieces should fall neatly into a \u2018womenswear\u2019 or \u2018menswear\u2019 binary was refreshingly moot. \u201cA girl or a woman, whoever chooses to identify as one\u2026 is the most unnerving for patriarchy,\u201d Gurung said in the show\u2019s press notes, later revealing in a post-show interview that he\u2019d been inspired by protests for trans rights while designing the collection. \u201cOver the summer, going to the protests, the trans rally, going to places like Happy Fun Hideaway in Brooklyn, which is a non-binary space… I just wanted to create a collection that could show to the world what beauty can look like.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Prabal
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 08: A model walks the runway during the Prabal Gurung S\/S 2022 fashion show during New York Fashion Week at Robert F. Wagner Park on September 08, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Prabal
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 08: A model walks the runway during the Prabal Gurung spring-summer fashion show at Robert F. Wagner Park on September 08, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Randy Brooke\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Prabal
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 08: A model walks the runway during the Prabal Gurung spring-summer fashion show at Robert F. Wagner Park on September 08, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Randy Brooke\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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