A Brief History of Fashion’s Love Affair With Video Games Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood1/8Kim Kardashian: Hollywood is proving to be the fashion industry’s favorite game, with both Karl Lagerfeld and Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing appearing as characters alongside founder and star Kim Kardashian West.
Photo: Courtesy of Moschino2/8At Moschino, Jeremy Scott gave Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the rest of the Super Mario Brothers crew a fashionable update to celebrate the game’s 30th anniversary.
Photo: Monica Feudi / Feudiguaineri.com3/8The “virtual princesses” that inspired the hair and makeup at Prada’s Fall 2012 show called to mind the manga heroines of popular video games.
Photo: Marcio Madeira / Firstview.com4/8Lara Croft: Tomb Raider served as the jumping-off point for Raf Simons’s streamlined and utilitarian Fall 2010 collection at Jil Sander. Of course, Simons had Angelina Jolie’s portrayal of the video game heroine to help flesh out what Croft’s wardrobe might look like in three dimensions.
Photo: Marcio Madeira5/8On Giles’s Spring 2009 runway, models strutted out in oversize headpieces and face-obscuring ghost masks inspired by Pac-Man. There were also more wearable options, like this dress patterned with icons from the classic arcade game.
