Know Thy Neighbor was inspired by the film The Mirror (1975) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with costume design by Nelli Fomina. I was made aware of this film through the interview I conducted with Roy Price, a former film executive. This film is an avant-garde soviet film told from the perspective of a dying old man reflecting on his life in the soviet union. I was inspired by the simple modest clothing of the characters as well as the fear and suppression that is constant throughout the film. I wanted to include references to film editing as well by using distorted proportions, repetition, and warped seams. I used scarves as hoods to represent how soviet citizens had to hide their thoughts and identities to avoid being arrested by the government. The color palette was directly sampled from stills in the film, grounding the collection in the visual language of The Mirror and preserving its moody, desaturated tones.