Lately, ride-or-die Marc Jacobs fans have noticed something: The designer's been pairing his new Snapshot bags with old pieces (a gauzy plaid dress from 2012, a Schiapa-reality knitwear set from 2011). It’s a cool nod to the house’s heritage, and an acknowledgement of the way women really dress—great style is always a remix, not a reset.
Jacobs knows this, and his new collection—which dropped like a Taylor Swift single, with no warning and lots of eyeliner—seems to take that idea even further. Yeah, he’s using leftover fabrics and past motifs, but by building new shapes with the same materials, he’s elevating the idea of a remix into a total blast-off.
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See it in the familiar logo print that’s been macrame’d and shredded on Luke Lenski, then inflated into a puffer gown on Mica Argañaraz. A white cotton coil dress unravels at the ribcase, showing slashes of Julia Nobis’ skin. And Anok Yoi wears a jean skirt topped with a duvet cloak that could send us right back to bed…or could be worn by a Boba Fett warrior goddess in town for a few errands.
We’ll end with some love for Gigi and Bella Hadid, who serve as Black Swan / White Swan doubles in coordinating columns of warped denim and broken sequin sequences. It’s a callback to last season’s slinky sequin gowns, but pushed into a different dimension—one where couture becomes its own kind of living creature, and what’s already in your closet can explode and rebuild, just like so many of our “after times” lives.
Also, while we’re all here: Did you see how Dick Page inverted the “smoky” eye, and did the technique in Frozen shades of purple, blue, and white? Fun.