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From Alexander McQueen’s graduate collection Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims, which took its cues from the East London serial killer, to Dilara Findikoglu’s SS18 ‘satanic orgy’, it goes without saying that fashion has had a longstanding fascination with the darkness.
Fitting neatly into that category are horror movies, which have been captivating audiences since 1896, when George Méliès Le Manoir du Diable was released. They’ve provided designers with no end of inspiration, and why wouldn’t they, when you take into account just how aesthetically spectacular many of the genre’s best efforts are?
Take cult vampire classic The Hunger, for example, in which David Bowie and an icy-cool Catherine Deneuve lurk in NY nightclubs wearing some absolute lewks, or Stanley Kubrick’s chilling, blood-soaked masterpiece The Shining, which sees Jack Nicholson wreak terror on wife Shelley Duvall in rural America while wearing a succession of AW18-worthy 70s knitwear and denim.
Now, given the best day of the year is upon us, we delve into some of the best collections to come from of sofa marathons and late night screenings.
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