Posts tagged Marc Jacobs
New York Fashion Week’s garden variety: Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan & Barbara Tfank
Sep 14th
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LA Time’s correspondent Booth Moore reports on the NYC Fashion Week experience:
Maybe it’s the grow-your-own food movement, the popularity of farmers markets, or simply the fact that these are spring collections, but botany is sprouting up as a theme all over the runways.
Carolina Herrera took colors, prints and floral appliques from 18th century botanical plates for her collection, which included a gown hand-painted with the image of a flower, along with its name and species.
For her Garden of Eden-themed collection, Monique Lhuillier worked with cherry blossom print taffeta, draping it into a pleated A-line cocktail dress and a ball gown. (Also spotted: “sage green,” “mint floral” and “poppy” organza.)
At Donna Karan, shoes were decorated with leather leaves and gauzy long slip dresses were “saffron-stained” and “tamarind-distressed.” A rough-textured, jute-colored nubuck jacket was reminiscent of a seed sack.
Jenny Packham, who is fast becoming a favorite of the red carpet set for her lovely gowns — many of which have sleeves, for those who care about that sort of thing — tapped wallpaper specialists de Gournay to design the moody, hand painted florals for her finale gowns, one in a silk crepe de chine with a beaded tulle shoulder.
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New York Fashion Week: Marc Jacobs’ ’70s show
Sep 14th
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The LA Times’ Boothe Moore breaks down the Marc Jacobs show @ NY Fashion Week:
At Marc Jacobs’ spring/summer show, the look was unmistakably Jodi Foster from the 1976 film “Taxi Driver.”
Which is not to say that the models looked like preteen prostitutes exactly — but that they looked like bright lights in the dark city.
Hearkening back to the 1970s, these are clothes for strutting your stuff and looking like you’re living large even if you’re not — long, floaty halter dresses in geometric prints; slinky, one-shoulder striped jersey gowns; puffy sleeve blouses worn with even puffier long skirts cinched with leather sashes and finished off with overgrown corsages; zigzag patterned metallic knits and enormous straw hats with the rims turned back.
Suiting was a focus, but it was glam suiting, such as a cropped butterscotch satin jacket and matching short-shorts, a sorbet pink satin pants suit with flared trousers, or an over-sized blazer embroidered with bands of silver and gold sequins, worn atop fluid cream silk crepe trousers.
It might not have been the most thought-provoking Marc Jacobs collection, but it was exuberant, from the pink, purple, black and gold color palette to the glitter-dusted platform sandals. Top it off with great-looking structured, flap-front handbags, More >
Marc Jacobs joins the E-Commerce Industry
Jul 13th
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According to Instyle.com, Marcjacobs.com has all the bells and whistles as one would expect from a leading fashion designer’s site—including livestream videos, gorgeous photos, news, and gossip—but it’s been missing one obvious thing: Online shopping! Like many high-end retailers, Marc Jacobs has been slow to the e-commerce trend, but he has finally announced plans to sell clothes on his site, starting in September. Robert Duffy, the President and Vice Chairman of Marc Jacobs, even hinted that there will be exclusive duds on the relaunched site. “I want to give people a reason to go there,” he told The New York Times. Read more here….
Jourdan Dunn Back In Front of the Camera for Vogue & i-D
Jun 29th
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Jourdan Dunn is the 19 year old high fashion model, who has graced the catwalk may times for such high fashion designers like Marc Jacobs & Polo Ralph Lauren, and was the first black model to walk a Prada runway in over a decade. However Dunn had recently taken a hiatus since giving birth to her first child last December amidst much controversy. However, save for a couple of times since giving birth last December, but she’s generally shied away from the camera, until now. It seems that she’s ready to start logging time on sets again: earlier this month, she was reportedly photographed for a September 2010 Vogue story that will also feature Stella Tennant and Liya Kebede, and today she was on set shooting a beauty story for i-D’s Fall 2010 issue (left).
