FASHION

The Inspiration Equation

What have designers been obsessing about lately? Armand Limnander takes a guess.

by Armand Limnander

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

Chewbacca + Hitchcock heroines + Doris Day = Bottega Veneta’s contemporary spin on the classics

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

Glamazon warriors + gunslinging bandoliers + a foreboding raven =Ann Demeulemeester’s poetic toughies

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

Cats + early-Nineties Versace + librarians with secret lives =Riccardo Tisci’s kink parade at Givenchy

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

An hourglass + camels + a cow = Max Mara’s town-and-country sophisticates

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

A field of wheat + Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven + Little House on the Prairie’s Laura Ingalls = Rodarte’s out-on-the-range smocks

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

Katharine Hamnett’s slogan T-shirts + Eighties label Bodymap + W’s logo = D&G’s alphabet soup

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

Coneheads + early-Nineties ravers + Olympic skiers = Raf Simons’s medley of sportswear and haute couture for Jil Sander

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Styled: Felicia Garcia-Rivera

Candy apples + vintage swimming caps + fish scales = Prada’s mod mermaid sequins