The models are styled in poses and tableaux that draw from the canon of western art history — paintings are titled after the models or after historical paintings such as Watteau's La Leçon d'Amour, Balthus's The Guitar Lesson and Courbet's L'Origine du Monde, while also integrating Yoruba art and other aspects of African
culture in the bold colours, African - print fabrics and head wraps of the sitters.
Anthea Hamilton — renowned for her
bold and humorous works that often include references from the worlds of art, fashion, design and popular
culture - has designed seven costumes
in collaboration with Jonathan Anderson, LOEWE's Creative Director, that incorporate the
colours and the shapes of different varieties of squash or pumpkin; many of the silhouettes of the costumes, made with materials such as hand - painted leather or painted silk crepon, were inspired
in designs from the 1970s.