“It’s so easy to take a man’s suit, put it on a woman, an say it’s a ‘power suit.’ But it’s so much more subversive to create a suit with femininity first, to recognize a ‘new power’ that was always there,” states Prabal Gurung in the show notes. The designer has spent a career dissecting what “American” fashion meant to him, so for his spring 2022 collection, he went even deeper this season with Mattel brand American Girl. It was a natural partnership, one which will see products off the runway, including tees for women and girls and exclusive dolls.