If fashion had an Olympics, one of the events would be decoding the Marc Jacobs show. Scheduled for this evening, it is the most anticipated, and scrutinized, of the New York season—no matter how delayed the show start. Every six months, the designer changes tack at the same time that he propels fashion forward. Sometimes he’ll call out one or more of the impetuses for those changes—high-school proms (spring 2006), the Cat in the Hat (fall 2012), Victoriana (spring 2014)—which, in truth, tell only part of the story. Any of these specific references is always transformed, and placed into a larger narrative, mood, and feeling which takes Jacobs’s work in a much different direction than it traveled in six months earlier. An (almost) all-white line-up follows a dark-hued one; layering precedes controlled tailoring. It’s a process that’s fascinating to follow. Won’t you join in the fun as we share our lightheartedly assemblage of a decade of Marc Jacobs shows, between fall 2005 and spring 2015?
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