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BIOSince the launch of his first eponymous collection in February 2009, Prabal Gurung has dressed a number of leading ladies, from the freshest faces in Hollywood to Washington's biggest fashion icon. In 2010 he was the recipient of the Ecco Domani Fashion Fund Award and received a nomination for the 2010 CFDA Swarovski Womenswear Award. He was chosen by the fashion industry's leading editors, retailers, designers and business experts for one of the highly coveted design studios at the {CFDA Fashion Incubator} for 2010-2012. In November 2010, Gurung was selected as a runner-up for the 2010 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund. Gurung was born in Singapore and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. He began his career in fashion apprenticing at several local production and fashion houses and designed with Manish Arora while studying at New Delhi's National Institute of Fashion Technology. In 1999, after seven years of traveling, Gurung moved to New York City, where he interned for Donna Karan while attending Parsons School of Design. In his first year, he was awarded the "Best Designer" title at the annual Parsons / FIT design competition. After Parsons, Gurung spent two years with Cynthia Rowley's design team and later became the design director at Bill Blass. After five successful years, Gurung left his post at Blass to launch his own collection. |
