New York Spring 2024 Designer Inspirations: Part Two

Ari Stark
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For the second installment of WWD’s designer inspirations preview of New York Fashion Week, muses of all varieties loom large over the spring 2024 collections.

As a longtime source of fashion for New York’s social set — and a popular member of it — Dennis Basso Photoshopped an image of iconic socialite C.Z. Guest and her equally iconic daughter Cornelia at the Costume Institute Gala in 1981, reimagining them in a pair of gowns from his upcoming collection.

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C.Z. Guest also made an appearance on Silvia Tcherassi’s mood board alongside other icons the designer considers to be of “effortless elegance,” like Jackie Kennedy and Marella Agnelli during their travels in Capri.

Meanwhile, Keith Herron of the Advisry ready-to-wear brand looked to Natalie Kalmus, color director for Technicolor films in the ’50s, to inspire his collection’s central pattern, “The Technicolor Oxford.”

Sergio Hudson’s muse, on the other hand, is serving more of a ’90s attitude. The figure with a side-swept ponytail obscured by oversize sunglasses appears to be Missy Elliott, but all the designer could tell for sure is that, “She’s a b—h.”

Elsewhere, Bach Mai took his recently deceased father as his muse. “He was my biggest supporter,” said the eveningwear designer, whose first runway presentation at Chelsea’s DiMenna Center will borrow from Greek funerary traditions. Paternal figures influenced the collections of CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund nominee Colin Locascio and Ev Bravado from Who Decides War as well.

Tory Burch and Area designers Piotrek Panszczyk and Beckett Fogg were more amused by inanimate objects this season. The Aladdin teapot from California-based potter J.A. Bauer inspired the former, while the latter looked to prehistoric jewelry made of bone to create skulls using a new floating crystal bombé technique.

And Naeem Khan looked to the crown jewels of his native India for his spring show. If Khan’s muse, the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh of Patialia, is an indication of things to come, his collection will be sure to sparkle.

Launch Gallery: New York Spring 2024 Designer Inspirations: Part Two

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