Fall’s Fashion Hit: Where the Wild Things Are

As much as designers try to predict how music, art and film will influence fashion the next season, it’s always a wonderful wild card to see how things will turn out. Though Disney has seen to it that there’s a designer connection with the anticipated Tim Burton project Alice in Wonderland – they commissioned Tom Binns to design a jewelry line – the film that really seems to be tapping into our collective fashion subconscious right now is Where the Wild Things Are.

At last night’s amazing Fever Ray concert at Webster Hall, the famously shy Karin Dreijer Andersson appeared on stage in what looked like a massive, dreadlocked headdress, surrounded by band members in costume. Their “Seven” video has a man in a bearded mask. Though this Swedish band is going for the tribal, Nordic vibe, the similarities are striking.

Seven from Fever Ray on Vimeo.

Faux fur vests are de rigeur this season, including one designed by Rachel Zoe.

And the movie has gotten one of the ultimate blessings from the fashion world: a spinoff line by Opening Ceremony, including this coat ($575). The fur? Faux, of course. Wouldn’t want to hurt those Wild Things.