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Prabal Gurung : A Fashion designer from Nepal

It is always so good to see anyone from Nepal doing well in an international level and I am so glad to see Prabal Gurung in the international fashion arena.

I saw his designs on Michelle Obama, Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana and Oprah Winfrey. I just love him and his creations.

Here is the excerpt from his website introducing him.

 “Gurung was born in Singapore and raised in Kathmandu,Nepal. It was in New Delhi,India that his design career truly began. While studying at New Delhi’s National Institute of Fashion Technology, Gurung freelanced at several production and fashion houses and apprenticed with Manish Arora. His travels took him to Melbourne and London, where he assisted stylists for various fashion shows and editorials at international publications. In 1999, Gurung moved to New York City. He began his career in New York interning for Donna Karan while attending Parsons School of Design. In his first year, he was awarded the “Best Designer” title at the annual Parsons /FITdesign competition.

After Parsons, Gurung spent two years with Cynthia Rowley’s design and production team, which allowed him to gain even more invaluable experience within the fashion industry. Soon after, he was appointed design director at the iconic Bill Blass. After five successful years, Gurung left his post at Blass to launch his own collection, PRABAL GURUNG.”

Look at his collection from Spring 2012 collect here . They are so amazing and beautiful. No wonder so many celebrities loves his collection.

 

Sarah Jessica Parker  was in Australia recently and she wore Prabal Gurung. It was just beautiful.

 He is also the goodwill ambassador for Maiti Nepal .  This is what he told ekantipur about his association, “A society free from human trafficking is possible and we must realise that it is our responsibility to make this world a better place for all mankind. By simply stating our desire, we sow the seeds of great change,”

 Best wishes for all the good work.

 Sources

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Black nail polish

I was talking to one of my older relatives a while ago regarding how my Dashain went. She told me that she saw my Dashain photos in Facebook and really liked the fact that I was traditional and wore sari while doing Puja and even made an effort to grow Jamara. She was happy that I was holding on to my Nepali roots. Then she said everything was perfect but…

I wasn’t sure what was coming next but she said, “Everything was perfect but you were wearing a black nail polish. Red would have been 100% perfect.”

Seriously I didn’t even notice what nail polish I was wearing until I talked with her.  I know I was wearing a Red sari and all the traditional jewellery but it didn’t occur to me to change my polish according to my sari.

Anyway I love black nail polish. I have been wearing them for a decade now. I find is easy to maintain and goes with everything I wear. I have never have Goth look but I find it looks great with short filed nails. And these days there are so many companies that are doing black nail polish with different shade and glitters. I had Chanel black nail polish which was the best so far as it was used to last so long that I didn’t have to maintain for weeks.

Different people have their own opinion on black nail polish. Few years ago, one of my male friends told me that if you see a girl with black nail polish in a night club it means that the girl is ready to mingle. Then I have few friends who see black nail polis as bad omen but for me I like the way it looks on my hand.

I am definitely not wearing the polish to mingle with anyone nor do I believe in bad omens. I know we have all seen them on witches or vampires in horror movie but that is just movies. After all, we haven’t stopped eating apple pie after watch American pie!

I have seen lots of celebrities wearing black polish and in every fashion magazine I have read, they think black polish are so in so I don’t care what people say I am not going to give up on my black nail polish. Also I think 100% perfect is boring, you need to have

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some degree of uncertainty for life to be exciting  🙂