With spring finally on the horizon, there’s no better time to evaluate your new season wardrobe—and no better place to find inspiration than our shortlist of movie muses. Will you channel Jane Birkin in La Piscine, lounging poolside in her crochet cover-ups, or adopt the easy elegance of Dorothy Dandridge in her floaty silk dresses in Carmen Jones? Here are the top 10 films to watch now for the ultimate dose of summer style.
Liv Tyler in Stealing Beauty
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This cult coming-of-age story from 1996 follows a young woman, played by a fresh-faced Liv Tyler, who travels to Tuscany in search of her biological father. She spends much of the summer sunbathing, attending soirées and frolicking in olive groves, but is never less than impeccably dressed. Her penchant for delicate chiffon, moody florals and straw hats chimes with the romantic mood on the SS19 runways and was cited as a source of inspiration at Altuzarra. Meanwhile, at Brock Collection’s SS19 show, which featured ruffled bodices and diaphanous dresses that would have felt right at home in Tuscany, models had half-up chignons that mirror Tyler’s on-screen hairdo.
Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones
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Bizet’s Carmen gets a Fifties makeover in Otto Preminger’s 1954 musical starring the electrifying Dorothy Dandridge. The titular femme fatale wears full-skirted frocks, flouncy blouses and flowers in her hair as she seduces soldiers and leaves a trail of eligible suitors in her wake. The role earned Dandridge an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, the first for an African-American woman, and her version of Carmen became a powerful symbol of black womanhood, channelled by everyone from Beyoncé to Halle Berry. Those looking to replicate Carmen’s sultry summer style will find dramatic day dresses at Molly Goddard and Valentino—not to mention Erdem, whose SS18 collection took Dandridge, as well as a young Queen Elizabeth, as its muse.
Audrey Hepburn in Paris When it Sizzles
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Hubert de Givenchy’s collaborations with Audrey Hepburn resulted in some of the most covetable on-screen wardrobes in history, and her whimsical outfits in this 1964 comedy are among the best. There are ice-cream pastels galore—a strawberry shift, a pistachio-coloured skirt suit, a peach silk dress—as well as bow-laden hats and neat, top-handle bags. For a modern-day iteration of the latter, look to Medea, the Milan-based bag label founded by sisters Giulia and Camilla Venturini.
Jane Birkin in La Piscine
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The tension is palpable in Jacques Deray’s 1969 sun-drenched melodrama about desire and intrigue on the Côte d’Azur. It centres on Romy Schneider and Alain Delon, who play a frustrated couple holidaying on the coast, but it’s impossible to take your eyes off Jane Birkin who saunters around their villa in gingham minidresses, crisp cotton shirts and knockout swimwear designed by André Courrèges. Our favourite? Her crochet cover-ups, which are the perfect pieces to incorporate into your holiday wardrobe given the predominance of Seventies-era crochet and macramé on the SS19 catwalks at JW Anderson, Chloé and Oscar de la Renta.
Sissy Spacek in Badlands
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Fashion’s obsession with prairie dressing is far from over, with The Vampire’s Wife, Coach and Batsheva leading the charge for SS19. No one embodies its carefree spirit better than Sissy Spacek in Terrence Malick’s 1973 road movie about an impressionable teen who falls for a troubled older man (Martin Sheen). On the run from South Dakota to Montana, the couple drive through dead-end towns and hide out in a tree house to evade the police. Sheen channels James Dean in white T-shirts and double denim, while Spacek is a vision in billowing dresses with puff sleeves, ruffles, high necklines and chintzy floral prints. Midwestern Americana never looked better.
Milla Jovovich in Dazed and Confused
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Acid wash denim? Check. Layers of fringe? Check. Acres of tie dye? Absolutely. Richard Linklater’s stoner comedy became an instant classic when it was released in 1993 thanks to a killer soundtrack and cast of rising stars (Parker Posey, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck), but it’s also worth revisiting for the late Sixties and Seventies fashion, which enjoyed a major revival on the SS19 runways at Etro and Paco Rabanne. Milla Jovovich’s hippy Texas high-schooler is a standout in her suede separates and souvenir necklaces, providing a lesson in retro festival dressing for those heading to Coachella or Burning Man.
Marie Laforêt in Plein Soleil
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Dreaming of spending days on a yacht and nights dancing at jazz clubs? Take your sartorial cues from 1960’s Plein Soleil, the first cinematic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley. While the later version starring Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon is equally stylish, René Clément’s iteration with Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet and Marie Laforêt captures the languid promise of summer like nothing else. Laforêt’s pared-back nautical wardrobe is the epitome of Riviera chic (contemporary equivalents can be found at Tommy Hilfiger and Sies Marjan), though there’s as much to be admired in Delon and Ronet’s ensembles: linen suits, Oxford button-downs and loafers worn with effortless insouciance.
Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman
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A fixture on designers’ mood boards from Mother of Pearl to Escada, Julia Roberts’ 1990 movie makeover in Pretty Woman produced several decade-defining looks. From her polka-dot dress with matching hat to sorbet-coloured city shorts with boxy blazer and that show-stopping red opera gown, there’s plenty to riff off when compiling your new season look. Head to Gabriela Hearst for summer suiting, Emilia Wickstead for ladylike ballgowns and Alessandra Rich for silk midi-dresses that wouldn’t look out of place at a charity polo match.
Jean Seberg in Bonjour Tristesse
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Jean Seberg’s gamine crop became synonymous with French-girl cool after her scene-stealing turn in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 À Bout de Souffle, but cooler still is her wardrobe in Bonjour Tristesse, the 1958 Otto Preminger-helmed drama about a teenager vacationing in the south of France. Comprised of cropped trousers, boat-neck tops and block-colour one-pieces, it has all the hallmarks of timeless summer style. Best of all are her two spectacular cocktail dresses: one wispy, white and embroidered with flowers, and the other a decidedly grown-up little black dress to rival Audrey Hepburn’s in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Seberg’s thumbprint on fashion is undeniable: she was the muse for Piazza Sempione’s last resort collection and her hair even inspired the micro-fringed pixie cuts at Prada’s SS19 show, crafted by hairstylist Guido Palau.
Anne-Louise Lambert in Picnic at Hanging Rock
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Australian auteur Peter Weir’s haunting 1975 mystery about the disappearance of three Victorian schoolgirls has influenced designers for decades—Alexander McQueen in 2005, Erdem in 2010, Raf Simons for Dior in 2016. After all, who can deny the allure of paper-thin parasols, straw boaters and reworked white lace? John Galliano returned to the film once again for SS19, creating an entire collection inspired by the young ladies of Appleyard College. There were ivory pinafores, gauzy slips and striped blazers, as well as Stephen Jones-designed boaters tied with ribbons.
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