“I was looking at the work of Guy Bourdin,” explains 28-year-old Greco-British designer Mary Katrantzou, “when I realized the room was dictating the aesthetic of the image—the color of the walls, textiles, and setting were just as important as the woman in the frame.” Katrantzou is referring to the inspiration of her much-lauded debut lampshade mini-crini-filled womenswear collection for spring 2011. “I thought it would be interesting to put the room on the woman rather than the woman in the room,” she says. For fall, the recent Central Saint Martins grad takes her study of home-decor fetishism to the next level, turning her critical eye to “objects symbolic of cultural capital” by incorporating Fabergé eggs, Meissen porcelain, and Ming vases. This season, Katrantzou’s clothes aren’t the only explorations of the clash between the worlds of interiors and interiority. From Tiffany lamp–modeled dresses at Rue du Mail and dresses made from actual crushed ceramic plates at Alexander McQueen to tiled stilettos inspired by artist Jean Pierre Raynaud’s clinically white Container Zéro installation at Balenciaga, it could be said that a few other designers have also found a room of their own.