Ask Prabal Gurung why he injected so much suiting into his fall 2026 collection and he’ll tell you it’s what he’s at home with.
“We titled the collection ‘Home Sweet Home?’ — what does the home feel like in this particular time when things are fractured, accelerated and the ground feels shaky,” Gurung said. “I went back to Nepal. I went to a Catholic school, there were bells of the temples, shamans, Sufis and different faiths and religions all living together.”
Although he described his education as tough, it was where he first found admiration from “Nuns or the women in my family,” he said. “I learned through the women there.” That came to life in his fall collection in a greater focus on suiting, either in black or white, which opened the show, as well as coats embroidered with anemones.
“It’s a reimagining of the uniform. The suits are structured but they’re all gently draped, and stitched around the lapel and hems,” Gurung said. “And these coats are like a reminiscence of the quilts and duvets we had in school.”
Evening dresses still comprised the bulk of the collection, often with familiar elements: Some resembled the angel’s trumpet-inspired silhouettes from Gurung’s spring 2026 show, and plumage added volume throughout the range. He also encrusted a few looks with pearls and emeralds — “My personal stones that I wear for protection,” he said — alongside more versatile pieces, like silk draped blouses.
“It’s about sprinkling a little bit of magic in,” Gurung said, adding that he went for richer jewel tones in the collection than in years prior. “I felt that primary colors no longer held optimism for us, so I wanted to deepen the colors and find beauty in the darkness.”
