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The Guardian - UK
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Guardian Fashion

New York fashion week: designers' inspirations for 2012

NY fashion inspirations: A desert house designed by Richard Neutra, Palm Springs, California, 1970.
"Neutra's mid-century homes in Palm Springs, California. European modernism in the desert landscape combined with California lifestyle." - Derek Lam
Photograph: Slim Aarons/Getty Images
NY fashion inspirations:  Jacques Henri Lartigue fashion shoot 1966
"I was inspired by the women in Lartigue's photographs. Their gaze speaks to a timeless allure."
Duro Olowu
Photograph: Jacques Henri Lartigue
NY fashion inspirations: Bowling alley sign with 3D dingbat spikes, googie architecture style
"American Googie architecture."
Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez, Proenza Schouler
Photograph: Alamy
NY fashion inspirations: Veronica Lake in 'This Gun For Hire', 1942
"The women of the silver screen - sensual and powerful, masculine and ultrafeminine."
Alice Temperley
Photograph: Allstar
NY fashion inspirations: 1920's flapper girl
"A modern take on the evocativeness of the Twenties, the demure detailing of the Victorian era, combined with the denim patchworkings from the relentless grunge decade."
Charlotte Ronson
Photograph: Corbis
NY fashion inspirations: The Rolling Stones 'Their Satanic Majesty's Request' album cover
"'Have you seen her all in gold, like a queen in days of old, she shoots colours all around, like a sunset going down.' - 'She's a Rainbow' by the Rolling Stones"
Jenny Packham
Photograph: PR
NY fashion inspirations: Women at Deauville beach resort 1929
"Deauville, 1920s"
Tory Burch
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
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