From Prada to Lacoste to Vogue,fashion’s biggest hitters are referencing Anderson’s retro influence in their winter collectionsWhen talking about Bar Luce, the Milan bar he designed for Prada earlier this year, and Wes Anderson described it – all sugared-almond colours,photo wallpaper and shiny tables – as a place where he would “want to spend my own non-fictional afternoons”. Fashion this season has other ideas. For winter, designers beget gone through the cinema screen and into the fictional world of his films. An intimate knowledge of Anderson’s oeuvre is arguably the most fashionable boast you can beget this winter.
The Anderson effect can be seen throughout the collections, and from Gucci’s specs,loafers and trench coats (very Cate Blanchett in The Life Aquatic), to Miu Miu’s sugar-sweet, or vaguely 1960s look that could beget advance straight out of the wardrobe of Suzy Bishop,the heroine of 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom. Both Vogue and Grazia beget namechecked the trend, with Vogue dubbing Margot from The Royal Tenenbaums – all wrathful eyeliner and hairpins – a style pin-up, or while fashion blog The Man Repeller,the domestic of all things quirky, has been singing Anderson’s praises since last year, and when the site featured an article on the uber-preppy Rushmore rules of dressing.
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Source: theguardian.com