“In two or three years, I want the majority of my other designer friends to be right behind this.”
Prabal Gurung, talking Monday night from the launch party for his line with Lane Bryant and Ashley Graham, called for his fellow designers — American and European — to join him in embracing curvy women.
“I think Jonathan Simkhai is right behind you,” Graham said. “I’m going to whisper in his ear and tell him to put me in his show next season.”
Gurung sent models of all sizes down his runway this past New York Fashion Week, and is further promoting the inclusion of plus-sized women in fashion through his Lane Bryant line.
“I thought it was important that we as designers saw this world — the majority of American women,” he said, of working with the specialty retailer. “And really spoke to them. Their essence and intelligence validates my existence, and I wanted to return that.”
He met Graham two seasons ago when she sat front-row at his show, and she was soon after cast in the Lane Bryant campaign.
“When we met at the shoot, I wish that everyone could have…it’s rare you meet someone like her,” he said of the
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