He Knows What Women Want ... Prabal Gurung SS2012
It is not hard to see why Prabal Gurung is
such a big hit among discerning fashionistas worldwide.
Translucent chiffon-lined angular cutouts
are omnipresent on both sides of the torso, shoulders and thighs, giving extra
exposure to the svelte and seductive areas of a woman’s body. At the same time,
Prabal’s ‘excess’ cutting out approach on the shapes enables women to show more
of their prized curves whilst refining the current contemporary silhouettes.
If you have seen What
Women Want — a Hollywood flick starring Mel Gibson as an alpha male who got
electrocuted and somehow attained the power to listen to women’s thoughts and
desires — you can see that Prabal seems to possess the same power as Gibson’s character. What’s
more, thanks to the ‘power’, he could easily translate the thoughts into a
series of magnificent clothing collections that got women drool and swoon in an
instant.
At his spring/summer 2012 collection
showcase in New York,
like a true magician of style, he kept the audiences enthralled with his rich
and graphic ready-to-wear collection. Elevating ‘seduction’ and ‘sensuality’ to
higher and newer level, the ingenious Singapore-born,
New York-based Nepalese fashion
designer liberally explores and experiments with feminine shapes and technical
approach.
Furthermore, a touch of fetishism also
appears on one of the pieces — a rope harness attached to a wide leather belt
and worn over a cutout printed dress with long chiffon-lined sleeves and thigh
length skirt, extended with translucent and floor-sweeping floral appliquéd chiffon
extension. The harness, designed by accessories designer Zana Bayne, is one of
many other accessories that she designed for Prabal’s spring/summer 2012
collection.
Besides working with major colour blocks of
white, black and purple, the cutting-edge graphic prints that liberally doused
on most of the pieces totally lend an exciting lease of life into the
collection.
The prints ranged from swirled lines that akin to the clouds in
traditional Chinese paintings (perhaps inspired from the murals of Tibetan
temples) with nuances of teal and purple to the abstract Jackson Pollock-esque
paint drips in black and purple against white milieu that disperse on a
bias-cut hemmed scarf dress.
If you are a big fan of detailing, be
mesmerised by the Oscar red carpet-worthy fully appliquéd cocktail dress with
printed skirt, belted waist and tulle under layering. Another paparazzi-attention-catching
evening piece, which is a long-sleeved dress drenched in shiny purple paillettes,
is also set to take you off your feet and excellent for classy soirees.
Prabal Gurung’s spring/summer 2011
collection will be available at selected fashion retailers in the US and around the
world, as well as Net-a-Porter.com next year.
*Photos by Style.com
Prabal Gurung – Designer Club: 285, Tunhwa
South Road, Taipei Taiwan; Harvey Nichols at The Landmark, 15 Queen’s Road, Hong
Kong; 10 Corso Como: 79 Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, South Korea; Al
Othman: Maryam Complex, Salem Al- Mubarak Street, Salmiya, Kuwait; Symphony: Ground
Floor, Fashion Avenue, The Dubai Mall, Dubai UAE; Dover Street Market: 17-18,
Dover Street, London W1S 4LT.
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