Top left and background: Jožef Tominc, Man in Ottoman dress (1830–40) (detail), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with funds donated by Luisa, Simona and Luca Valmorbida in memory of Carlo Valmorbida, 2010, NGV ;
Centre: Alexander McQueen, Look 30 (detail), from the Dante collection, autumn–winter 1996–97, disused synagogue, Lower East Side, New York, 1996. Photo © Robert Fairer © Alexander McQueen. Model: Kristen McMenamy;
Bottom: Alexander McQueen, Look 15 (detail), from the Horn of Plenty collection, autumn–winter 2009–10, Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, Paris, 10 March 2009. Photo © Robert Fairer © Alexander McQueen. Model: Kamila Filipcikova