Vogue’s editors recently took to the Run-Through to talk about the cultural goings-on we’re most looking forward to this fall. Give it a click. Then, if you’re still looking for something to read, stream, or listen to, take a cue from fashion’s top designers, who have plenty of ideas about the books, movies, and musicians that matter now. May we suggest starting with the on-screen oeuvre of Richard E. Grant, star of the Miu Miu show? We are especially fond of his work in Gosford Park. Here, more recommendations straight off the spring 2026 runways.
You should stream the 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini classic Teorema because both Proenza Schouler’s Rachel Scott and Versace’s Dario Vitale said it was one of their favorite movies. “I have a very big soft spot for Pasolini,” Vitale said after his Versace debut. “There is this beautiful bourgeois and elegant and almost aristocratic environment, a beautiful house, and there is this very proper family where everything is really perfect, and then at a certain point there is a person that enters in this people’s life and destroys their life. Not destroy actually, it’s an awakening for those people.”
You should read Zadie Smith, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle, watch Chantal Akerman’s films, and get to know the music of PJ Harvey—these are all the artists that Henry Zankov identifies as having the spirit of his brand.
You should see Robert Altman’s 3 Women, Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte’s favorite movie which they used as inspiration this season.
You should look at the works of painter Morris Louis, who inspired Christopher John Rogers’s spring 2026 color palette.
You should learn about the artist Ursula Sax, particularly her “Geometric Ballet,” which she created as an homage to Oskar Schlemmer. The costumes provided the inspiration for Amy Smilovic’s latest Tibi collection.
You should watch the 2016 PBS Masterpiece series The Durrells in Corfu, starring a young Josh O’Connor, whose bathrobes inspired Duckie Brown’s Steven Cox and Daniel Silver.
You should listen to Judy Nylon’s “Jailhouse Rock” because Nylon’s trippy version of the Elvis classic was on Sarah Burton’s Givenchy soundtrack.
You should buy the Lady Frieda Harris-painted Aleiser Crowley Thoth tarot deck and start throwing cards, because Gabriela Hearst was inspired by the cards, using some of her interpretations of the deck’s major arcana for her prints and jacquards.
You should watch American Gigolo because Louise Trotter reimagined the Bottega Veneta clutch Lauren Hutton carried in the iconic 1980 movie and had the legend in her front row.
You should read Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence, because Anna Sui was thinking about the novelist, who entered self-imposed exile in 1919—a “savage pilgrimage,” he called it—after enduring harassment for suspicions of spying during World War I. “He ended up in Taos, New Mexico, at Mabel Dodge Luhan ranch, which was this literary and creative enclave of Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe. Millicent Rogers [the Standard Oil heiress and fashion plate] was coming around at that time, and it was a kind of utopia where they could have their alternative lifestyles and live very freely, not be constrained by society.”
You should take a closer look at 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which Dynasty and Soull Ogun cited as inspiration for their collection and L’Enchanteur’s first runway show.
You should watch Tomb Raider, because LaQuan Smith had Lara Croft in mind when designing a collection that included lace-up leather pants and wide crocodile belts.
You should visit the Detroit Institute of Arts. Tracy Reese, who was born and raised in the Motor City, has pulled inspiration from the museum’s vast collection for years. This season marks five years of the designer producing her Hope For Flowers label in her hometown.
You should rewatch a classic Marlene Dietrich film, given designer Christian Siriano based his entire spring 2026 collection off the iconic Old Hollywood star. Come for the superb acting—stay for her distinctive (and always glamorous) fashions.
You should attempt a surfing lesson at Venice Beach in L.A., or rewatch the 2005 surfer film Lords of Dogtown. Both served as visual cues for Jonathan Simkhai’s beachy spring collection. Even if you can’t catch a wave, you can serve seaside style.
Greek movies are hard to stream, but if you manage to get your hands on a DVD, you should watch Koritsia ston Ilio (Girls in the Sun), a 1968 film about a tourist and a Greek shepherd falling in love on the island of Andros. Alternatively, you should listen to the album O Dromos by Mimis Plessas and Lefteris Papadopoulos. Both the movie and the music inspired Di Petsa’s spring collection.
You should peruse Cecil Beaton’s The Book of Beauty, which features portraits of many of the Bright Young Things that inspired Alessandra Rich’s spring collection. For a more satirical take on the same gang, you could read Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies.
You should play Old School RuneScape like Yaku Stapleton, who bases his collections on the RPG games he plays.