The designer will celebrate his 10th anniversary this fall, but he's already left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.
Author:Tyler McCallUpdated:Sep 3, 2019Original:Sep 3, 2019Here at Fashionista, we're passionate about covering all the ways that the industry is changing for the better. That's why we wanted to honor the forces working tirelessly to reshape what it means to work in fashion and beauty. With our new annual series, Fashionista Five, we'll be doing just that by highlighting five people whose work we've admired over the past year.
"When I put those T-shirts on the runway, it wasn't a publicity stunt. It was more that I felt collectively how we all were mourning and I wanted to acknowledge it because that was important," he says. "The shift in the political and cultural landscape happened, and it's important for us to show up; when we are talking about women's rights, we as women's designers, we need to speak up. It is a responsibility.
"That's truly how I am as a person; I feel like, at the end of the day, what are we going to leave behind when we go? I want to be able to see and look back at this change and say I made a contribution this way," he says. "To me, luxury for the longest period of time was isolated and specific for a certain race, a certain kind of woman, a certain size of women.
Of course, Gurung acknowledges that things weren't perfect straight out of the gate; he notes that the fashion industry wasn't as "woke" as it is now, adding, "I am part of that problem also, because I grew up in that and really celebrated size 2 and 0." He played by the rules.
"There are more designers of color, which I think is the most exciting; the status quo is shifting. More than anything else, when you see the New York runway versus the rest of the world, [you see] the diversity, the inclusivity, the things that happen here that doesn't happen anywhere else," he says.
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