Prabal Gurung doesn’t just design clothes, he builds sermons. For Spring/Summer 2026, the designer staged his own meditation on hope as rebellion, turning the runway into a cathedral of quiet defiance. Titled “Angels in America,” the collection drew from Nepal’s angel’s trumpet flower, a blossom that intoxicates with beauty yet warns of danger, blooming against all odds. Gurung framed his angels as those who live between binaries, those shunned but closer to the divine. His collection asked who gets to embody grace and who carries light when the world feels fractured.

The show opened with garments cocooned in fabric, silhouettes wrapped tight as if preparing for flight. Voluminous skirts flared into trumpet hems, recalling hijra ghagras and lehengas yet sharpened into modern motion. Wide

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