On Saturday afternoon, Prabal Gurung took trend week to church.
The designer held his spring 2026 runway present inside St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue in midtown. Pews had been cleared away in favor of two lengthy rows of chairs, which framed the central runway for company together with Shailene Woodley, Rachel Zoe, June Ambrose, soccer participant Sam Hartman, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, designer Maxwell Osborne, Sarita Choudhury, Jordan Chiles and extra.
”We go approach, approach again,” mentioned MJ Rodriguez of the designer. She was, after all, wearing a Prabal Gurung design, one among many she’s worn in recent times. “Him, together with Christian Siriano, had been the primary folks to actually be concerned in styling me for purple carpets,” she added. “His garments are extraordinarily inclusive.”
Pritika Swarup, Rupi Kaur, Riley Burruss, Kandi Burruss, Sarah Shahi, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Coco Rocha and Emma Brooks McAllister on the Prabal Gurung spring 2026 ready-to-wear present.
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“ Trend Week has been busy. It’s loads occurring,” mentioned Kandi Burruss, seated subsequent to daughter Riley Burruss a couple of chairs down. “I’m not from right here — I’m from Atlanta, so I’m not used to leaping from present to point out to point out. It’s been fairly cool.”
“ I like that it brings my mother out, as a result of I don’t see her that always,” added Riley. “At any time when it’s trend week, she’s right here. So we get to hang around.”
Throughout the present, a choir sang renditions of “Operating Up That Hill” and “Hallelujah” from the pulpit, with association and piano accompaniment by Chloe Flower and organ by Anna Lapwood.
“That was magnificent,” enthused Jordan Roth afterward, as he made his approach towards the “solely clergy and workers permitted” signal that led backstage.
“ That is form of my first time arranging choral music,” mentioned Flower, including that it was her third Prabal Gurung present efficiency. “ I simply love him for at all times empowering feminine composers, as a result of we’re so underrepresented. Now we have so many feminine composers, however folks don’t play our music — and so I feel the change occurs in venues like this.”
Flower is gearing as much as launch new music later this fall. “ Numerous choral music on there, too,” she teased.
