Our extensive analyses of the spring 2027 season now contine into the broader realm of culture. This, on the heels of decoding the trends—both what to where and how, clocking the art influences, and highlighting trenchant quotes from the reviews.
One way to fill in the six-month lag between the close of the season and the arrival of clothes in stores is to go deeper into designers’ inspirations. The list below collects the books, movies, and tracks that inspired the spring 2027 collections.
The French philosopher Michel Foucault, the Bloomsbury writer Virginia Woolf, and the photographer Bettina Rheims all make more than one appearance here, as does Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, a perennial fashion fave. You might want to take a listen to the 1972 Italian song written in gibberish that was the soundtrack to Fendi’s show or rewatch the romantic idyll that is Merchant Ivory’s 1985 film A Room With a View (based on E. M. Forester’s novel), which was Simone Rocha’s touchstone for the men’s collection she presented at Pitti Uomo. And how fitting that Valentino’s show, presented in a library, should include a sheer tulle pullover, the equivalent of a glossy book cover. Alessandro Michele had been ruminating on a concept put forth in the book Black Swan.
Read: Nonfiction
Alessandro Michele, Valentino
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007
