Catwalk Music

Music is significant to the catwalk and its narratives, and has had a role in some of the catwalk’s most iconoclastic moments—from Ossie Clark’s “Revolution” shows of the late 1960s and early 1970s to Marc Jacobs’s 1993 show for Perry Ellis that was said to have “killed grunge.” Catwalk music may be bespoke, derivative, live, or recorded. Collaborations between sound designers such as Seigen Ono and Jeremy Healy and global fashion brands, have produced not only individual soundtracks, but also a culture of tastemaking that intertwines the fashion and music industries.