These designers have found their muses in hotel suites

As New York Fashion Week attendees fill tents, showrooms and cold-pressed juice bars throughout Manhattan, high-fashion label Rodarte introduces a pair of limited-edition scarves created in partnership with the city's Mandarin Oriental hotel. Los Angeles-based sister act Kate and Laura Mulleavy helm Rodarte, and are frequent guests at the Gotham grand dame.

Laura Mulleavy told The New York Times:

"We took inspiration from the property and especially from the views you get of Central Park during the winter from the windows."

The first of the two scarves was unveiled Friday. It has a black-and-white linear design reminiscent of both wintry tree branches and a glass installation in the hotel's Asiate restaurant, plus a purple stripe that's similar in color to a hue used in hotel suites. The first of the two Mandarin-Oriental scarves retails for $350. Rodarte will debut a second scarf at New York Fashion Week in February 2016.

The Mulleavy sisters are not the first designers to have found their muse in a hotel suite. In 2008, footwear phenom Christian Louboutin partnered with One&Only luxury resorts on a line of espadrilles sold at properties in the Maldives, Bahamas, Dubai, Mauritius and Los Cabos. Oscar de la Renta created custom fragrances for Peninsula Hotels in 2013, and London's Cafe Royal hotel recently announced its eighth cocktail made in partnership with the L'Atelier de Givenchy fragrance collection.

Designers such as Armani, Versace, Louis Vuitton and Ferragamo have gone one step further, launching hotel brands with outposts in Milan, Dubai, Florence, Rome and Australia's Gold Coast. In December, after nearly a decade of construction, Versace plans to open doors to a Palazzo Versace in Dubai's Culture Village. The hotel is not yet taking reservations, but rates at the glam Versace pad in Australia start at approximately $492 per night. As a wise woman once said, pretty hurts.