Marc Jacobs may not have shipped his Resort collection to Saint-Tropez for a deluxe seaside fashion show à la Chanel—he was too busy accepting his third Womenswear Designer of the Year Award on Monday night for that. But the French vacation destination—or, more specifically, a 1960 s Technicolor version of it—was a starting point of sorts for his 38-look lineup. Long on joie de vivre, it boasted pastel-pretty tweed jackets and coats trimmed in iridescent plastic paillettes, a colorful and shiny lamé halter dress, and embroidered lace flowers whipped up into frothy micro-mini frocks.
This wasn t necessarily about destination dressing, though. Elaborating on some of the tailoring he highlighted for Fall, Jacobs included a spongy crepe shorts suit and a lacquered, dotted trench as practical (it s actually waterproof) as it was whimsical. Still, at the end of the day, he was feeling more strongly for the latter. The polka dots were plentiful in this upbeat collection; on one flippy, midriff-baring bandeau dress, those spots were actually creamy cabochon stones.
