In the book – and subsequent Tom Ford film – the protagonist’s longtime boyfriend loses his life in a fatal car accident. To remind everyone of this fact, Nouchi convinced his models to wear car doors as shoulder bags, strapping seat belts around waists and crafting singlets, suits, and trench coats from waxed leather that gleamed like a just-polished bonnet. Elsewhere, long-line, nipped-waisted tailoring drew on the silhouettes from the 60s, which is when Isherwood based his novel, while t-shirts had been ruched at the sternum to evoke the pain of heartache.
Photography Tśele Nthane
