Although fashion magnate Tom Ford does not make much of the fact that he studied architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, that early influence can still be felt in his body of work, as it can with Daniel DuGoff, an architectural alum of Washington University in St. Louis turned fashionista who has recently been attracting press attention for his technically exquisite yet stylish clothing line DDUGOFF. However, the industry has also been venturing into other traditionally architectural realms. In May, the Shining 3D Fashion Show Design Contest invited participants to submit 3D printed clothing options:

The aesthetic structural sensibility of fashion, while obviously existing in a different material realm, shares much with the most visually engaging and relevant architecture.

This structural appreciation extends beyond clothing into film. When Tom Ford directed the adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man," he had the principal character live in John Lautner's Schaffer House, which ends up becoming a (fashionable) character unto itself.