For next season, Marc Jacobs is highlighting a fantasy universe where 1930s Hollywood cinema bumps elbows with American youth of the 50s. Marc Jacobs plays with his loves and, within a runway show that brings out all his zest for life within the walls of the Ziegfeld Theater, bringing distressed looks together with glamour in a perfectly mastered fantasized minimalism. The looks are strong, but the pieces themselves are simple. The crowning achievement of the collection resides in the decorative elements: bunches of sequins and shoulder pad jewels with rich embroidery… these looks are composed according to a very precise equation.
University letter jackets imbued with scathing patriotism celebrate cultural diversity. This is Marc Jacobs’ America – in one segment, you might even think that it’s Sandy Olsson herself (Olivia Newton-John’s character in Grease) up on the catwalk dressed in a Teddy jacket. But not just any Teddy jacket; this one is labeled Marc Jacobs 1984. It’s a way for him to definitively anchor himself into American culture, reminding the fashion sphere of the year when, after being shut out of Perry Ellis for a collection that was deemed too grunge, the instinctive designer met Robert Duffy for the first time, thereby kicking off the Marc Jacobs adventure.
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