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Dress

Designer Prabal Gurung American

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NAIVETE The quality or state of being naive (marked by unaffected simplicity):

Prabal Gurung's spring/summer 2020 collection, which celebrated his eponymous label's tenth anniversary, featured sashes with the statement, ''Who Gets to Be American?'' and reflected Gurung's activism on behalf of immigrants, as well as his own path to citizenship. His spring/summer 2022 collection titled ''American Girl" was a meditation on girlhood and advocated for the free expression of gender identity. He opened the collection with this dress in pink gingham, a nod to the youthful playsuits designed by American fashion pioneer Claire McCardell in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dress, Prabal Gurung (American, born Singapore, 1979), cotton, synthetic

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