Gurung said New York Fashion Week is a “magical, mysterious journey for him. An inward spiritual journey,” recorded at night at home in Nepal. Moody, yes, but hopeful in turquoise and emerald silk organza, a cropped black leather jacket with a pink shearling collar and its butterfly print, in a high-low black and white dress with a high neckline and another in a sheer red and black with sexy cutouts at the hip . There was an oversized sweater in an ivory and yellow butterfly knit and a pink and scarlet embroidered cocoon coat. “But there is a lot of power in it,” Gurung said. Everything grew out of silence on his 10-day Vipassana retreat, where reading, phone calls and exercise were forbidden. On the third day, a Painted Lady landed on his window, “and it gave me something to think about.”