Flight Instincts: 14 Takes on Fall’s Most Unexpected Animal Print Inline

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    Valentino’s rapturous couture homage to its native city opened with a dress inspired by the eagle, a symbol of Rome.

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    If not immediately evident in the clothes themselves, the Mulleavy sisters’ homage to migrational birds at Rodarte proved the season’s most sweeping exercise on the avian theme.

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    J.W.Anderson’s Spring menswear outing pitted the synthetic against the natural. Case in point: this uncanny nude top kitted out with white ostrich plumes.

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    A heady, peacock-feather print was central to **Riccardo Tisci’**s Fall propositions at Givenchy.

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    Old Hollywood sex appeal and high levels of quirk make for a happy marriage in this Gucci number—turban optional but strongly suggested.