The Luella Spring/Summer 2008 Show was inspired by Thora Birch’s character, Enid, in Terry Zwigoff’s « Ghost World », which was based on Daniel Clowes’s eponymous graphic novel.
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Tags: Cinema, Comics, Daniel Clowes, Fashion, Ghost World, Inspiration, Luella Bartley, Movies, Terry Zwigoff, Thora Birch
The 36th look, named « Les Visiteurs du Soir », of the Jean Paul Gaultier Couture Autumn/Winter 2009-2010 Show, titled « Actresses / Les Actrices » (or « Cinema / Cinéma »), was a tribute to Marcel Carné’s « The Devil’s Envoys / Les Visiteurs du Soir ».
Another « The Devil’s Envoys »-inspired collection : Dior by John Galliano Couture Autumn/Winter 2006-2007 (in part).
Photo : VOGUE.co.uk
Tags: Actresses, Cinema, Fashion, Inspiration, Jean Paul Gaultier, Les Actrices, Les Visiteurs du Soir, Marcel Carné, Movies, The Devil's Envoys

The French formal garden of the Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld Spring/Summer 2011 Show was inspired by the black-and-white elegance of Alain Resnais’s « Last Year at Marienbad / L’Année dernière à Marienbad ».
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Tags: Alain Resnais, Chanel, Cinema, Fashion, Ines de La Fressange, Inspiration, Karl Lagerfeld, Last Year at Marienbad, Last Year in Marienbad, L’Année dernière à Marienbad, Movies

The Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2007 Show, entitled « Sarabande », made reference to Stanley Kubrick’s « Barry Lyndon ».
Another « Barry Lyndon »-inspired collection : Altuzarra Spring/Summer 2015 (this show paid tribute to « Barry Lyndon »’s sinister magnificence).
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Tags: Alexander McQueen, Barry Lyndon, Cinema, Fashion, Flowers, Inspiration, Movies, Sarabande, Stanley Kubrick

The Ryan Lo Spring/Summer 2015 Collection is partly influenced by the innocence of Sophie Sheridan in Phyllida Lloyd’s « Mamma Mia ! The Movie » and by Carrie Bradshaw’s vacation to Abu Dhabi in Michael Patrick King’s « Sex and the City 2 ».
To read about other « Sex and the City 2 »-inspired pieces and « Sex and the City »-influenced shoes, search for the « Sex and the City 2 » and « Sex and the City » posts that I have published on November 20, 2012, and on January 30, 2014, respectively.
Tags: Carrie Bradshaw, Cinema, Fashion, Inspiration, Mamma Mia ! The Movie, Michael Patrick King, Movies, Phyllida Lloyd, Ryan Lo, Sex and the City, Sex and the City 2, Sophie Sheridan

The Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci Couture Spring/Summer 2012 Collection was inspired by Yakov Protazanov’s « Aelita : Queen of Mars » and by Fritz Lang’s « Metropolis ».
To read about other « Metropolis »-influenced collections, search for the « Metropolis » post that I have published on May 31, 2012.
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Tags: Aelita : Queen of Mars, Cinema, Fashion, Fritz Lang, Givenchy, Inspiration, Metropolis, Movies, Riccardo Tisci, Yakov Protazanov

The Maxime Simoëns Couture Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 Show, titled « Nosferatu », was inspired by F. W. Murnau’s eponymous German Expressionist vampire horror film.
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Tags: Cinema, F. W. Murnau, Fashion, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Inspiration, Maxime Simoëns, Movies, Nosferatu, Nosferatu : A Symphony of Horror, Nosferatu : eine Symphonie des Grauens, Vampires