Marc Jacobs Collection & Louis Vuitton Bags Stolen During Transportation

[tarsha]

Just had news that the Marc Jacobs press preview day has been cancelled due to the collection having been stolen in transit from Paris!

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Apparently the entire Marc Jacobs European Sample collection was stolen while in transport to London for a press day. OMG, some courier's wife is a very happy woman. Hello Ebay. But seriously, anyone who tries to sell those samples right now are going to get the smack down from Marc Jacobs Intl...

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[Street_a_Licious]

LOL

genius

those people would be dumb to sell those pieces in the next 4 months

 

[tarsha]

It's a bun fight for fashion editors wanting to get their hands on samples from the collections to shoot at the best of times (snooty PRs who rebuke your every plead; pieces unavailable as they're being hogged by other publications for weeks on end), but Marc Jacobs has just made it that much harder: his entire spring/summer 2011 collection has been stolen.

"Dear all," the email woefully began. "The Marc Jacobs PR team is sorry to inform you that our press day tomorrow [a refresher of the clothes that were first shown on the catwalk. What, the models' googly-eyed death stares were distracting, alright?] in the Marc Jacobs store is cancelled, due to the theft of the spring/summer 2012 collections during its transfer from Paris." Impressive, considering the collection consisted of 46 looks - hardly an under-the-T-shirt job is it?
Anyway, unless the klepto is 7ft and of size-six proportions, chances are the pieces will end up in a bin bag. Because he/she sure isn't going to be able to flog them without attracting some unwanted attention: these are samples, meaning they haven't gone into distribution yet. If the fool is quaking at the prospect of a face-off with the police, he/she should be on knees praying there isn't a showdown with the editors; angry, they're far scarier than any man of law.

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[ScarlettLover]

This is crazy! I cant believe that a whole collection like that can disappear into thin air. Someone is going to be in BIG trouble!

 

[TianSoFine]

This is actually quite funny!
How random.

 

[alonsoJonathan]

i wish this happen to Tom Ford

 

[Gabriel29]

Wait so is he going to have to make the entire collection all over again?! Sucks

 

[CharlottefromCA]

well its horrible i wouldn't wish this on anyone. but better a big behemoth of designer than a fledgling newbie. they have resources to rebound.

 

[EnVogueLove]

Hope that we will find out who did it.

 

[CharlottefromCA]

Maybe Carine stole it and gave it to Max Mara lol

 

[MyNameIs]

So Mark finally saw the collection in the daylight and decided it'd be less embarrassing if it disappeared than actually having to show it to people.

BTW, didn't this happen to him before? Or was it Zac Posen maybe? I feel like I remember someone's studio being rated a couple years ago like right before the show.

 

[dennab216]

I would die right on the spot. Poor Marc, really.

 

[Pradable]

The new Marc Jacobs spring 2012 collection may not get much play in upcoming fashion glossies, because someone stole the whole damn thing. According to the Telegraph, the company sent the following email to editors ahead of a planned UK press day:

“Dear all: The Marc Jacobs PR team is sorry to inform you that our press day tomorrow in the Marc Jacobs store is cancelled, due to the theft of the spring/summer 2012 collections during its transfer from Paris.”

Um, what? How does an entire collection get stolen? There were 46 looks in his show, and somehow they all got swiped. Obviously these were samples meant for press and probably editorial shoots, and we have to assume that the collection is already in production. We can only guess (fear) that the collection was stolen for the purpose of ripping it off, because it’s going to be hard to sell it on the black market without drawing a lot of attention. We’re completely horrified by this fashion heist. Also, still, WTF.

fashionista

 

[TianSoFine]

Maybe Carine stole it and gave it to Max Mara lol

LOL. This.

 

[MulletProof]

Maybe Carine stole it and gave it to Max Mara lol

I wouldn't wish this collection on anyone either . Besides, what you steal these days is Céline, Haider, Rick, that's what's where the hype's at, Marc Jacobs? come on. It's probably all just a PR move to get people talking about his collections again..

 

[Echoes]

(CBS) Call the fashion police or better yet, the actual police.


Marc Jacobs' entire Spring/Summer 2012 collection has reportedly been stolen from a train while it was en route from Paris to London.

The debacle came to light when the design house canceled its press day on Wednesday. According to The Daily Beast, an e-mail was circulated to the press on Wednesday morning, saying "our press day tomorrow in the Marc Jacobs store is cancelled, due to the theft of the spring/summer 2012 collections during its transfer from Paris."

Many are speculating that the thieves could be counterfeiters and the iconic American designer's looks could be showing up as knockoffs on the streets.

Marc Jacob's S/S 2012 46-look collection was shown at Mecedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York on Sept. 15, 2011.

This is not the first time a designer has been the victim of theft.

In 2007, burglars stole Christopher Kane's entire spring/summer 2008 collection, according to Elle UK. In 2009, a $552,000 shipment of Victoria Beckham dresses were stolen on their way to Neiman Marcus department store in New York.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_1...ing-summer-2012-collection-reportedly-stolen/

 

[dajrekshn]

Maybe Carine stole it and gave it to Max Mara lol

 

[Street_a_Licious]

c'mon, you all know they'll have samples done in about a week or less

 

[tarsha]

Wait so is he going to have to make the entire collection all over again?! Sucks

I guess they were just samples.

 

[tarsha]

It has been described as a heist, the fashion crime of the season: the announcement, Thursday afternoon, that the Marc Jacobs spring/summer 2012 collection had been stolen on the way from Paris to London, where it was to be paraded in front of the press.

Reports in the British and American news media immediately conjectured that counterfeiters, seeking a head start, might have mounted “a daring raid” as the 46-look collection, which is not yet in stores, zipped between France and Britain by train.

The truth, according to British police, and a person familiar with their investigation, is slightly less “Mission: Impossible.” Scotland Yard confirmed Thursday that it was investigating the theft of “a quantity of clothing, bags and shoes” valued at almost $65,000. The collection was stolen, it said, at 8 a.m. on a sunlit Wednesday morning on Mount Street, in the heart of the upscale Mayfair neighborhood in London, home to a large Marc Jacobs store.

A person familiar with the situation, who did not want to be named discussing a continuing investigation, said late Wednesday that the collection that was stolen was comprised of “duplicate samples, in Europe for press days.”

“The collection as shown in New York is safe, and the red carpets won’t be missing Marc Jacobs this season.”

The person declined to discuss the nature of the robbery, but said no one had been hurt. There was speculation the collection had been lifted from a courier van delivering it to the store.

This is not the first time a large quantity of designer clothing has gone missing. Seventy-five dresses from Victoria Beckham’s spring/summer 2010 collection were taken from a delivery van on its way to Neiman Marcus in New York in 2009. In 2007, the London designer Christopher Kane’s studio was broken into and 23 pieces from that year’s spring/summer collection were stolen.

Keen-eyed fashion detectives should be on the lookout for thieves dressed, according to Suzy Menkes’s description of the collection in The International Herald Tribune, in a manner that gives a “sense of the Deep South, dance hall spirit,” including “see-through cellophane draped as cocktail dresses; or gingham printed on translucent plastic.”

nytimes