Walter van Beirendonck, designer

Fighter jets swirl and missiles explode around a leopard with rider on this sweatshirt. The 2015 Bataclan concert-hall attack in Paris prompted the designer to embroider the word woest across many of the garments presented in his 2016/2017 fall collection. “It’s a Flemish word, my language,” said Van Beirendonck. “It means furious. Because I am really angry.”

The decorative mirror work, or shisha, was applied using a technique that originates in northern India, where mirrors are considered powerful protective amulets against evil. The wild and furious imagery and talismanic embellishment afford this everyday garment the power of a cuirass, or armored breastplate. This reference is reflected in the removable panel buttoned to the front of the garment.