Interior Design Inspired by New York Fashion Week

With New York Fashion Week commencing last week, Kerrie Kelly Design Lab becomes filled with new interior design ideas for 2012 and inspired by fashion shows past.

2012: Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton

This year to display Marc Jacobs’s ironically girly Spring/Summer 2012 collection for Louis Vuitton, the designer embraced the juvenile femininity of his crystal tiaras, pastel puffed skirts and eyelet-daisy detail by staging a runway show on the most playful of platforms: a giant carousel. The whimsy of the set and the saccharine collection were counterweights to the darkness of that Fall’s fetishism. As rumors swirled of a potential move to the house of Dior, Jacobs’s scenery was also a clever commentary on the merry-go-round of fashion.

2005: John Galliano for Dior Haute Couture

We have come to expect such spectacles from brands like Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton and, the original showman, Thierry Mugler. Incorporating film and stage direction into the production, Mugler depicted a model, La Madone, in an embroidered angel ensemble suspended above glass spires.

1984: Thierry Mugler

Yet fashion shows were not always dramatic productions. As recently as the early 1980s, collections were exhibited over a two-month period in the intimate setting of designers’ salons. Throughout the decade, pioneers like Vivienne Westwood and Mugler led a transformation from small-scale “parades” to extravagant runway shows, and by the late ’90s, Paris fashion shows had become over-the-top extravaganzas, as designers one-upped each other-and themselves-year after year in the race to put on the wildest show. Which is why we welcome all that is fashion week each year.

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