Fashion month officially kicks off next week, and to get you ready for all of the sure-to-be-amazing looks we'll see on the catwalks, we asked top designers about their Fall 2013 inspirations.
Valentino designers, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, noted their influences as the "cinematic idea of beauty," while Jean Paul Gaultier said it was "a correspondence between music and fashion…David Bowie, Grace Jones." Both Isabel Marant and Olivier Rousteing of Balmain gave a nod to vacations—"images of Saint-Tropez " and "Latin power in Miami," respectively.
Watch the video to find out what roused Christian Louboutin, Giambattista Valli, and the Maison Martin Margiela team. Plus, Nicola Formichetti explains his social media presence: "People say I am the master of social media, but I'm not…maybe it's just the designers who are a little old school."
