A biography for Prabal Gurunghasn’t been written yet.
“My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.”
“I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.”
“Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.”
“I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.”
“I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!”
“Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.”
“I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.”
“All designers have a platform, an audience. Whether it's one or a million, it doesn't matter.”
“I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.”
“A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.”
“The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.”
“I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.”
“There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.”
“For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.”
“I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.”
“The first time I saw my look on a real person was in Paris, and I felt a little shock, a little thrill that went through my body. And that thrill never goes away - never.”
“I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.”
“When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives.”
“People on the outside and even some people in the fashion industry think that fashion people are maybe not the smartest. It's a constant battle.”
“There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.”