Fashion in The Guardian
What are the real-world inspirations for fashion in The Guardian?
Iliya’s home village
Iliya’s village has a retro-futuristic Medieval/Renaissance peasant vibe: fabrics like leather and wool, accessories like rucksacks and chunky belts, with modern undergarments like bras. Iliya wears lots of long woolen skirts and earthy neutral colors.
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Ziya (desert village)
Ziyans wear all-white, light fabrics that can be grown in the desert, and they cover lots of skin to shield from the sun.
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Pan epicenter
Inspired by India, Pan fashions resemble a futuristic version of Indian fashions today.
Reth, who hails from future Amritsar, wears a cotton-silk kurta (collarless shirt) and salwar pants (wide at the top, narrow at the ankle, with cuffed bottoms) when he first meets Iliya. He later wears cotton-silk kurta pajamas. As inspiration for Reth’s fashion, I admired designs by Antar Agni.
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His sister Amithi wears an ombre lehenga featuring dabka embroidery paired with an embroidered blouse and dupatta. For Amithi, I studied fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani. As a budding fashionista, Amithi wears bold, multicolored outfits with embroidery and embellishments.
Alisha is more centrally located in the Pan epicenter, but she’s also a more practical and understated dresser than Amithi. Alisha prefers simple saris and blouse-skirt combos, with colors that are carefully chosen to suit the environment.
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Toyosoni epicenter
The Toyosoni epicenter is inspired by future-Japan. At an elegant banquet, attendees dress in lavish ballgowns and formal suits. In business meetings, attendees (of all genders) overwhelmingly wear suits. Iliya sticks out like a sore thumb in her woolen skirt!
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P&C epicenter
In P&C inspired by future-USA, we see varying degrees of business casual. An assistant wears a royal blue skirt-suit, and the CEO wears a dusky rose skirt-suit inspired by Chanel. A male executive wears a blue button-down over dark jeans. Grayce, a prophet with a louder personality, wears red scarves “criss-crossed over her body.”
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Villages outside P&C
In a village inspired by future-Oaxaca, villagers wear robes clasped in front with metal fasteners. Traditional Oaxacan culture also inspires the jewelry and accessories.
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Image by Rebeca Cruz Galvan from Pixabay
Researching the fashion for The Guardian was a challenge for this fashion-don’t author! Which fashions were your favorites? Send me a message and let me know!