The Master Chart of Fashion Influence

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The fashion world may often inhabit its own bubble, but fashion doesn’t exist in its own vacuum. Designers are influenced by other designers, past and present, whether they realize it or not—and whether they admit it or not.

There are varying degrees of osmosis, homage paying, and “borrowing” during fashion week as well as camps and schools of thought. Ideas run from designer to designer, especially from one generation to the next.

As New York Fashion Week comes to a close, here’s an unscientific charting of the New York fashion industry’s ecosystem, or a cheat sheet to a week of the runways. (Wall Street Journal)

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