Photo: Indigital.tv1/11Balenciaga Fall 2017Demna Gvasalia turned side-view mirrors and floor mats into clutches and pencil skirts for his most recent Balenciaga show.
Photo: Indigital.tv2/11Prada Spring 2012Miuccia Prada might have summed up her Spring 2012 collectsion in one word (“sweetness”), but the reality on the runway was all auto, all the time: ’50s racer shoes, and retro cars printed on ready-to-wear.
Photo: Getty Images3/11Opening Ceremony Spring 2014For Opening Ceremony’s first show, Humberto Leon and Carol Lim enlisted an army of cars to drop models off on the runway. Consider it a stylish precursor to Uber.
Photo: Indigital.tv4/11Chanel Resort 2017Karl Lagerfeld’s homage to Cuban culture, staged in the capital city of Havana, came complete with ’50s car-print skirts and tees.
Photo: Indigital.tv5/11Moschino Spring 2016Jeremy Scott takes his references very literally, so it was no surprise that his carwash-themed show included a series of ’57 Chevy–inspired ball gowns.
Photo: Condé Nast Archive6/11Thierry Mugler Spring 1992Thierry Mugler’s car corset might not have worked for everyday wear, but on the runway, it was the talk of the ’92 season.
Photo: Getty Images7/11Dior Spring 2001For his grab bag Spring 2001 show, John Galliano reworked Dior’s signature bags into car doors with metal handles.
Photo: Indigital.tv8/11Louis Vuitton Resort 2015When Louis Vuitton headed to Monaco for Resort 2015, Nicolas Ghesquière made sure to reference the country’s biggest event—the Grand Prix. He worked racing flags into a sheer midi dress, later worn by Charlotte Gainsbourg to the Cannes Film Festival.
Photo: AP Images9/11Givenchy Spring 2014Givenchy’s former creative director Riccardo Tisci piled vintage cars on the runway for his Spring 2014 show—and then set them on fire. Yet, the burning backdrop wasn’t even the most buzzed-about moment. That honor would have to go to the blue crystal masks, created by makeup artist Pat McGrath.
Photo: Courtesy of Coach10/11Coach 1941 Resort 2017Stuart Vevers’s passion for Americana includes a healthy dose of car culture. Several of his show sets have included retro vehicles, though no design was as reverential as Resort 2017’s automobile knit.
Photo: Indigital.tv11/11Christopher Kane Spring 2016For Spring 2016, Christopher Kane went abstract, using John Chamberlain’s car-crash sculptures as a metaphor for his emotional state, after his mother’s death.
