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At the end of the Victorian era, Walter Rothschild, the second Baron Rothschild, devoted some of the banking dynasty’s riches to his interest in zoology, amassing a vast private collection that formed the natural history museum he opened to the public at Tring in 1892.....

Last summer, Mary Katrantzou was invited by the present baron, Jacob Rothschild, to use her psychedelic design talents to take part in “Creatures & Creations,” an exhibition celebrating his ancestor’s collection. Later, Katrantzou returned to Waddesdon Manor, the family’s neo-Renaissance Victorian country pile outside London (which was bequeathed to the National Trust and is open to visitors) to shoot her Resort collection, which, one thing leading to another, came out of her visual immersion in the Rothschild world. Here, we see it, on the loose in the ornate interiors and formal gardens—patterns of feather and exotic flowers, liberal lashings of lamé, glittering sequins, and multicolored stripes galore. It’s a buy-now collection designed to hold its own at country house dinners and holiday parties around the world. Wildlife apart, those are the natural habitats so many of Katrantzou’s international customers fit right into these days.