The Year in Fashion: 12 Muses Who Inspired Designers in 2015 Inline
Photo: (from left) Imagno / Getty Images; Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com1/12Adele Bloch-Bauer
Fashion (and art) enjoyed a golden moment in 2015 that kicked off with “The Woman in Gold” show at the Neue Galerie and had its denoument with Pat McGrath’s takeover of the Tuileries, where she gave makeovers using the limited-edition gold makeup she first launched on Prada’s Spring runway. Also taking a shine to the gleaming metal, were Valentino’s Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli who cited as an inspiration for their Fall ’15 show, Gustav Klimt, the painter of the world-famous portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of the Neue Galerie show.
Photo: (from left) Fin Costello / Redferns; Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com2/12Siouxsie Sioux
Alexander Wang’s “all-black” Fall collection had, reported Vogue.com’s Nicole Phelps: “attitude for days.” The “Frankenstein boots,” spiked hair, flannels, and studs, also linked the collection to the Goth subculture that flourished in the 1980s, thanks to people like Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith, who paved the way for the likes of Marilyn Manson (name checked as an inspo by Wang), and Brooke Candy, who sat front row.
Photo: (from left) Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com; Patrick Lichfield, Vogue, January 15, 19703/12Talitha Getty
Vogue.com’s Lynn Yeager described New York’s Fall Fashion Week as a battle of “punk harlots vs. overprivileged peasants,” with Alexander Wang’s show being an example of the former, and Tory Burch’s Moroccan reverie the latter. For fashion types, the archetypal haute hippie remains Talitha Getty, whose tragedy (addiction) is lost among the glory of Patrick Lichfield’s photos of her in Marrakech.
Photo: (from left) Buena Vista Pictures/ Photofest (steps); Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com4/12Margot Tenenbaum
Geek chic à la Margot Tenenbaum—was a real thing in 2015 and credit for the trend goes to Gucci’s Alessandro Michele, whose winsome, vintage-inflected debut for the brand introduced not just the year’s trophy shoe, a slide lined in kangaroo-fur and festooned with a horse-bit, but also chunky eyewear, ascots, and knit beanies.
Photo: (from left) John Kobal Foundation / Getty Images; Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com5/12Anna May Wong
Even before the Met’s "China: Through the Looking Glass" exhibition introduced Anna May Wong to a new audience of admirers, designers had made a muse of the stunning Chinese-American actress. Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli seemed to pay homage to Wong, and her famous Travis Banton–designed dragon dress, in their Fall show.
