Fashion is as much about people as it is about clothes, shoes, bags, and jewels—the people who make them, wear them, and inspire them. Here, we look back at the personalities and types who served as totems for fashion’s big messages. Among them are Bob Marley, whose image is inextricably entwined with the tracksuit, the most of-the-moment expression of athleisure, and Talitha Getty who retains an untarnished image as the face of the haute bohemian. But nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s this year was balanced by the renewed obsessions with Goth and New Wave icons, think Siouxsie Sioux and Duran Duran’s “Rio.” The pink-haired wunderkind from Australia, Fernanda Ly, meanwhile, made us believe in the future. Click to review 12 of the year’s most unforgettable muses.
