Prabal Gurung Spring 2026 | Angels in America Fashion Show Highlights (2026)

Prabal Gurung 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 similar ties. “These are meant to feel cocooned, like you’re in a protective shell,” he said in a gesture to a few other styles. “My collection always has an element of East-meets-West,” he said, noting the skirts resembled those worn by his mother and aunts in his native Nepal.

“The Patiala pant that we’ve been doing just has a lot more architecture to it,” Gurung continued.

Gurung infused a sunny color palette to the looks, from bright reds on a coat to energized pinks and blues on hand-pleated dresses. Those got a grounding with a few of the more familiar shapes — a silk faille trenchcoat in camel here, denim there —and newer tops with draping similar to the saris he grew up around.

That sense of familiarity and acceptance found its way into the rest of the show (“you’ll see I have models of all different demos,” he said, “I wanted to create a world where all of us can come together.”) When ideating the soundtrack with Chloe Flower, it even was decided to bring in a choir for the show.

To conclude the collection, a few head-to-hem plumage gowns walked out to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

“The result is how it’s all perceived,” Gurung said. “But experience is something I want to give people where they feel something.”