![]() Although this was not actually part of the book, Jun Takahashi also used this idea to inform his Undercover SS18 show. An eerie and dramatic presentation, the show also referenced one of The Shining’s most iconic scenes of twin girls standing in a hallway. Set in a Lucite box filled with artificial snow and bare trees, models walked and later ice-skated around the runway. Alexander McQueen took this as the setting for his AW99 show, “The Outlook”. Joined by his wife and psychically gifted son Danny, who is able to see the hotel’s terrifying past, a snowstorm then leaves the family stranded, all the while supernatural forces torment the protagonist’s sanity. A horror novel, The Shining tells the story of a writer who takes the job as an off-season caretaker at a hotel. FRANKENSTEIN BY MARY SHELLEYĪnother of fashion’s favourite books to be adapted by Stanley Kubrick comes in the form of Stephen King’s The Shining. The final iteration of this came last December with Kawakubo costuming an opera performance of Orlando. With a demure mostly black menswear collection which saw models styled in frock coats, pinafores, and petticoats, the collection then evolved for the womenswear presentation which was a maximalist lesson in theatrical fashion. From Ann Demeulemeester and her AW07 collection to Christopher Bailey for his AW16 Burberry show, there is also Rei Kawakubo who has dedicated both her SS20 men and womenswear shows to the novel as part of a three-part project. ![]() With its extensive timespan and gender-fluid approach to fashion, a number of designers have looked to the book for inspiration. Adapted into a film starring Tilda Swinton, Woolf’s novel has gone on to become a cultural touchstone, notably in the LGBTQ+ community. Following this, Orlando goes on a 300-year time-travelling journey, meeting some of literature’s key figures on the way. Virginia’s Woolf’s Orlando tells the tale of an Elizabethan nobleman who wakes up one morning a woman. Outlining some of the industries most favoured books, influencing the likes of Grace Wales Bonner, Rei Kawakubo, and Vaquera, these are eight of fashion’s favourite texts. ![]() “I don’t have any clue,” she told the New York Times when asked what she made of all the fuss.Īnd with countless other examples of authors breaching into the realms of fashion, there are also the designers who have looked to books to inform their own work.įrom Alexander McQueen who looked to H.G Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau to create his wild and animal-like “It’s a Jungle Out There” collection to Alessandro Michele who created Gucci cyborgs for his AW18 show after being influenced by Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto, here, on World Book Day, we explore the relationship between fashion and literature. When Juergen Teller shot literary heavyweight Joan Didion for Celine’s SS15 campaign the world, bizarrely, came to a standstill. The image of the author wearing oversized glasses, a black top, and a gold necklace went viral so viral, it prompted Didion to make a statement on the matter. ![]()
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