New York fashion week: designers' inspirations for 2012

"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

"I was inspired by the women in Lartigue's photographs. Their gaze speaks to a timeless allure."
Duro Olowu Photograph: Jacques Henri Lartigue

"American Googie architecture."
Jack McCullough and Lazaro Hernandez, Proenza Schouler Photograph: Alamy

"The women of the silver screen - sensual and powerful, masculine and ultrafeminine."
Alice Temperley Photograph: Allstar

"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

"'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

"Deauville, 1920s"
Tory Burch Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images