Prabal Gurung

To designer Prabal Gurung’s list of accomplishments, this can now be added: He got Gloria Steinem to her very first fashion show.

The feminist author and activist was a front-row guest at Gurung’s runway show Sunday night, sitting two seats from Huma Abedin, the longtime top Hillary Clinton aide.

Steinem even posted about it on Instagram, saying: “There’s a first time for everything, even at 83.” She added that Gurung was “a kind man doing great work in fashion and beyond.”

Gurung, who bowed his head in salute to Steinem during his own lap down the runway, has long been a vocal supporter of feminism. At his February show, he came out wearing a T-shirt that said, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like.” His other models wore shirts with slogans like “The Future Is Female” and “Nevertheless, She Persisted.” Gurung said then that he’d been inspired by the women’s march he attended in New York in January.

At Sunday’s show, Gurung said backstage that the title of his collection, “Stronger In Color, When Dreamers Awake,” was literal and metaphorical.

“Literally the collection is very colorful — it’s spring,” he said. “But more than that, what I wanted to talk about was the colors in our world. Politically,

Jsocially ... when we have (all colors) represented, that’s when the world becomes an interesting place, a beautiful place to live.”

Open Ceremony

Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, the duo behind the Opening Ceremony label, are never content to simply send clothes down a runway. Every Fashion Week, they seem to come up with a new and more unconventional way to display their wares. They’ve put on an original play (directed by Jonah Hill and Spike Jonze). They’ve created a wall of oozing chocolate. They’ve held a celebrity beauty pageant and a martial arts display.

Leon and Lim also clearly love dance, having collaborated several times with the New York City Ballet to dress dancers. So it was probably only a matter of time before they staged their own, original Fashion Week dance piece.

“Changers: A Dance Story,” which premiered Sunday night and continues this week at the La Mama Theater, was written and directed by Jonze, a close friend of the designers, and stars the film and TV actors Mia Wasikowska and Lakeith Stanfield, with choreography by Ryan Heffington.

Carolina Herrera

Carolina Herrera believes that fashion