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From Inspiration to Runway: Fall 2011 European Edition

As designers share the sources of their ideas, we illustrate how their collections bring paintings, stained glass windows, and Ziggy Stardust to life. Tomas Maier said he hoped the effects of his designs for Bottega Veneta would be reminiscent of refracted light through Gothic stained glass windows. Maier may have had something more abstract in mind, but we saw quite a literal reflection of his inspiration in the old English window pictured at right.

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From Inspiration to Runway: Fall 2011 European Edition

As designers share the sources of their ideas, we illustrate how their collections bring paintings, stained glass windows, and Ziggy Stardust to life.

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