Past inspirations for the Google Doodle include Sir Isaac Newton, the composer Stravinsky and the children's television series Sesame Street.
For the coming autumn collection – which starts to hit shelves in August – suitably erudite inspirations include a book of photographs by the architect John Pawson ("amazing images of nature, with intense autumnal colours, bold oranges and saffrons", says Andersson) as well as Patti Smith and Nick Cave.
Her raw, frayed vocals feel older than her age would suggest, and she credits the likes of Tom Waits, James Carr and Alan Lomax's field recordings as inspirations.
The former mayor of Baltimore, said to be one of the inspirations for the Tommy Carcetti character in The Wire, has introduced gun control legislation, abolished the death penalty and legalised same-sex marriages, all while successfully increasing government spending on areas such as transport.
One of the inspirations for the show was this wonderful lady we met, Alaa al-Abasi.
In a hyper-saturated style that owes a lot to "City of God" (and in turn to Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas"), "Elite Squad" makes for strong medicine.Like its inspirations, this film is hyper-violent: the titular squad is an elite paramilitary unit called BOPE.
Inspirations included Wikipedia, the web encyclopedia written by volunteers, and the leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg to the New York Times during the Vietnam war, which ultimately led to a Supreme Court ruling that "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government".
Dick Grasso, the combative chairman of the NYSE, likes to cite his two conservative heroes of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, as chief inspirations for both privatisation and the spread of share ownership.
Mr Edelman, a financier, was supposedly one of the inspirations behind the character of Gordon Gekko from the film "Wall Street".
Mr Icahn was reputedly one of the inspirations for Gordon "greed is good" Gekko in the 1980s film, "Wall Street".
It's probably to Mr O'Malley's advantage that David Simon, the creator of the legendary HBO police series The Wire, has argued that Mr O'Malley is one of the inspirations for the show's character Tommy Carcetti, a Baltimore city councilman who eventually becomes mayor of the city and governor of the state.
