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Top fashion moments in paintings

We asked you which painting has inspired your fashion work and we are sharing the answers!

Countless fashion collections have been inspired by paintings, but we wanted to know which painted garments have inspired young creatives’ work. From Pre-Raphaelite Arthurian witches to a modern portrait of model Ambar Cristal Zarzuela crying after a mosquito’s bite in a Gucci dress, we are sharing our readers’ favourite paintings, hoping to inspire you!

 

 

What a classic! The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England, artist unknown, suggested by @phil_dsgn

 

Boxer shorts and butterfly wings! Dimitris Tsarouhis’ sailors, suggested by Dimitris Karayannis

A true icon; Louis XIV of France (1638-1715), portrait, after Claude Lefèbvre, suggested by @Rokusfalvyanna

 

Name a better colour. Queen Henrietta Maria by Anthony van Dyck, 1636, suggested by @_curtains_curtains

 

“I have started knitting this sweater!” Christopher Woods’ self-portrait, 1927, suggest by @alice.morell.evans

 

A mood. L’antipapa by Marx Ernst, 1942, suggested by @violanellaiuola

 

What a pattern! Woman with Bouquet by Laura Wheeler Waring, 1940, suggested by @__0009944_

 

The colour, the folfds, the fabric. Flaming June by Frederic Lord Leighton, 1830-1896, suggested by our team

 

Sportswear inspiration forever. To Douse the Devil for a Ducat, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 2015, suggested by @K3ll4art

 

A muse. Camille, or The woman in the green dress by Monet, 1866, suggested by @brandonfernandex

 

Not sure what is happening here, but it works. Morgan le Fay by Frederick Sandys, 1864, suggested by @Maria.Fabiona

 

Which runway does this belong to? “Sidonia von Bork” by Edward Burne-Jones, 1860, suggested by our team

 

This textile work though… The Wounded Dove, Rebecca Solomon, 1872, suggested by @Amber.Ori

 

Beatiful. Toyin Ojih Odutola, Pregnant, 2017, suggested by our team

 

Remember this from the Vogue Italia cover? Ice cream in Mozambique, Nassi Namoda, 2018 suggested by @Sakurednuda

 

Galliano has gotten inspired by this too! Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park by Diego Rivera, 1947 suggested by @g_ytan