Tim Burton’s influence on fashion
By Amy Larocca
Published: November 21 2009 00:52 | Last updated: November 21 2009 00:52
An autumn/winter 2009 design from Rodarte and Edward Scissorhands by Tim Burton at MoMA
It is a paradox of fashion that the film director Tim Burton, a man who regularly lands on worst-dressed lists along with his partner and muse Helena Bonham Carter; a man often excoriated for his matted hair and onion-peel layers of clothes, is also one of the most aesthetically influential film directors currently working, at least as far as that self-same fashion industry is concerned.
Indeed, says Kate Mulleavy, one half of the Rodarte design team, “I’m hard pressed to think of someone who works creatively and is not inspired by Tim Burton. Even if it’s subconscious.”
