5 Reasons Why PJ Harvey’s Subversive Style Is Having a Runway Renaissance Inline

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    Glittering turtlenecks have long been experiencing a resurgence, but Dries Van Noten gave his a particularly Harvey twist by layering patterned ones under embellished bras.

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    “I actually find wearing makeup like that, sort of smeared around, as extremely beautiful,” PJ Harvey said in 1996. It seems Marc Jacobs, who paired it with his Ziegfeld-esque theatrical looks, agrees.

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    Harvey knows the appeal of a logo tee worn with a metallic leather bottom, a tip Jonathan Anderson took to heart in his Loewe collection, though his, naturally, read not “Vincent Gallo” but “Loewe.”

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    Harvey wore her leg-of-mutton sleeves with a trompe l’oeil bow; Spring’s J.W.Anderson’s came illustrated with trompe l’oeil buttons.

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    Harvey does romance with a twist—in the form of hanging belt straps over a floor-length white gown, a motif that carried into Sarah Burton’s Spring collection for Alexander McQueen.