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From Inspiration to Runway: Fall 2011 Fashion Week

As designers share the sources of their ideas, we illustrate how their inspiration plays out on the runway. A vegetable might seem an unlikely muse, but designer Johnson Sartig did a lovely job interpreting the rainbow-streaked chard from his garden for Libertine's Fall 2011 collection.

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From Inspiration to Runway: Fall 2011 Fashion Week

The varied inspirations behind the Fall 2011 collections ran the gamut from rainbow-streaked chard at Libertine to Miss Havisham at Marchesa. Here's how they played out on the runway.

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