The NY Times takes a look at fashion guru Marc Jacobs.
Marc Jacobs, who divides his time between New York and Paris, where he also designs for Louis Vuitton, manages to stay one step ahead of the fashion pack. People wonder why that is. Celebrities like to attend his shows; tonight, Madonna was in the front row for his women’s spring 2010 collection. But pleasing celebrities hardly explains his ability to satisfy magazine art directors, editors, photographers, retailers and journalists, who, as a collective agency, can be fairly picky and jaded. And not every Marc Jacobs show engages people. This one did. “I had fun,” Mr. Jacobs said afterward, shrugging, as if it were that simple. Pulling off the combination of Eastern and Western styles — European and Asian — took some finesse. (In the end, it all blended together.) The layers and proportions were tricky; almost every outfit consisted of layers, usually with sheer, hosiery-like leggings as the main underpinning. And there were ruffles and frills everywhere: coating slim dresses, spilling over tailored pinstriped jackets, spiraling around long jersey dresses, finishing rompers. But the overall effect of this terrific presentation was a free-spirited attack of fashion, a wide comfort zone with different textures and assumptions about what is pretty and feminine. – From NY Times