Prabal Gurung Spring Summer 2017 Collection

Prabal Gurung Spring Summer 2017 collection boasted of wearability with a soft color palette and feminine silhouette. But was it progressive?

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SS17 PRABAL GURUNG NEW YORK FASHION WEEK

With a soft color palette and feminine silhouette, Prabal Gurung Spring Summer 2017 collection was wearable in the way you’d expect ready-to-wear to be.

The pieces included multi-slit skirts, long-sleeved tops, sweaters with asymmetric hems, off-shoulder dresses, crop-pants, slip dresses and gowns. The color palette was made of a lot of white – cloud grey, Persian blue, black, gold and a pastel thrown in here or there.

The collection added a lot of floaty elements to make the silhouettes appear more dynamic – multiple slits, feathery fringes, skirt flares, asymmetric hems and bell sleeves.

Although stylish, other than the color palette, the collection didn’t progress much further from last year’s Spring RTW collection. Plunging V-necks, high slits and long sweaters reminded me of the previous collection. Reminiscence isn’t always a bad thing – afterall, a designer tends to, and has to, have signature elements. But if some really bold and conspicuous styles are added to those signature elements, the progression would become pronounced and unreserved. Even so, owing to the practicality of the looks, there’s no doubt we’ll want to wear them. Or maybe, the audacity of the recent RTW collections by other designers like Moschino or Versace makes us find wearable designs like these too straightforward, or “tame”!




Some of the interesting bits are worth a mention – asymmetric print on a skirt, single twisty steel earrings, skirts and pants with front-slits held together with thin steel-rings and straps of slit dresses held together with steel-buttons and strings. The details made the silhouettes compelling – not in an in-your-face way, but in a subtle way – something your friend sitting next to you would notice, but maybe not a stranger across the road.
Here are two of my favorite looks from the Prabal Gurung Spring Summer 2017 collection. Both evening looks, the first one is a blue silk gown and the second is a gorgeous one-shouldered eggplant-colored dress worn with a red slip peeking from underneath.



Prabal Gurung Spring Summer 2017 Collection: Gallery

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