Prabal Gurun g is feeling contemplative.

“I think a place of worship is where you find the serenity and peace,” he said backstage before his spring 2026 collection was shown at Saint Bartholomew’s Church. “I kept thinking it’s the only place we can have a quiet moment, and I wanted to bring people into that.”

Gurung’s thinking dovetailed nicely with the theme of his collection, dubbed “Angels in America,” which, like last fall’s show, came about as a result of today’s roiling political tensions. “In trying times like these, where everything is so challenging, I wanted to find our angels,” he explained.

Well, he created them: many of the silhouettes derived their shapes from angels’ trumpet flowers, rendered in patterns of the plant in cloqué and ultralight brocades.

Other shapes had s

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