Right before the various fashion weeks take place, it's not rare to spot on the Internet brief articles or lists about designers' inspirations for their next collections. Some mention art, others architecture, music or even literature, but the truth is that the real inspirations may be hiding near you or maybe just in front of you.
Take Alexander Wang's collection: among the various pieces to file under the "neon coloured ready-to-rave athleisure" category there is a top that looks a bit like a relic from a 1989 house party as reinterpreted by AliExpress.
It features the slogan "Mind Detergent" and four images of random postcards from Miami, Florida. One of them shows (a slightly digitally altered version of) a postcard with palm trees and sunrise on the ocean that was on sale on Etsy, from a shop dedicated to vintage postcards from Florida.
The postcard went sold out on Etsy on 26th September, 2012, but (apart from buying it from Etsy, or receiving it from somebody else…) Wang may have stumbled upon it on Pinterest, as this image is also pinned on a board dedicated to palms in Miami (Palmier Miami 60).
don't want to guess where he got the other images, but check your attic or your Pinterest boards: maybe the inspiration for the next super-fashionable collection is that forgotten vintage postcard your Auntie Mame-like globetrotter aunt sent to your mum decades ago, or it's right in front of you on your own Pinterest board…
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