Left – Chard, Jenni Avins; Right – Libertine, Fall 2011, Getty Images
One of my favorite things about Fashion Week is when designers share the sources of their ideas — something they do with increasing frequency. Their inspirations inspired me to create a slide-show, an exploration of chard, grannies, and Charles Dickens as they relate to Fashion Week, which you can find alongside my other Fashion Week coverage at NBC’s ThreadNY: .
And a couple more inspiration-inspired posts:
- A Karen Walker review from the Spring 2010 collections:
Karen Walker’s line notes read, “A seaside holiday resort that serves as a prison for retired spies, combined with trippy ’60s psychedelia became the perfect starting point for a Karen Walker range.”
‘Sounds like the perfect starting point for a lot of things! I scrawled beside this sentence. So tonight I’m packing my imaginary suitcase for a hallucinatory holiday of overcast afternoons, and here’s what I’m bringing…read the rest at Dossier
- Bibhu Mohapatra’s Fall 2011 Mood Boards at ThreadNY. He told me, “Tilda Swinton, living in Salem, Massachusetts, but in 2030.”
- Lauren Manoogian’s beach forts, blankets and bonfires at ThreadNY.
It’s almost the weekend! Go get inspired…