Prabal Gurung Fashion Interview 2018
Our Reaction to Prabal Gurung Calling For More Inclusivity in Fashion: Hell F*cking Yes
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"One thing is to do a digital detox, and the second is surround yourself with people that can share stories that you’ve never heard of. I have a foundation back home in Nepal, which I started with 12 girls and now it’s gone to more than 300 children, mainly girls. We do their education and everything. I realised that I was fortunate enough to have all these privileges, [and] if you focus your problems by trying to solve someone else’s, it gets better. My foundation has saved me and continues to inspire me. I always say you have to be aware, awake, and present of what’s happening so nothing bypasses you.
[In terms of fashion] what fashion can truly do is to make the world more inclusive. What designers can do is, on the runway, make it more visibly inclusive. Race, size, age, everything. It doesn’t take anything out of us. It’s just casting different models. I call to action and challenge all designers across the world to start thinking like that. We are such leaders of what beauty is supposed to look like, when we make that change, the world will shift, and the world’s perception of beauty will shift."