In the show of Thom Browne Fall Winter 2014 collection, a handful of wayward and difficult associations that toyed with insanity: Bette Davis' Baby Jane; Heath Ledger's Joker; the Asylum story arc of American Horror Story; noir goddess Gloria Grahame disfigured by Lee Marvin in The Big Heat; renegade star Frances Farmer torn apart by her brutal and involuntary electroshock therapy; a society lady institutionalized for strangling the family pets with her string of pearls; papier-mâché keeping lunatic fingers busy.
