Marc Jacobs F/W 08.09 NYC

[KKnardi]

now after the whole fashion spot dissed his collection... I feel that he didn't try so hard to show something "new" this time around. And I really enjoy some of the pieces, the colors are beautiful. There's a sense of liberation and elegance in this collection.

 

[buddleja]

I actually like some of the pieces. there are definitely more wearable pieces than was in his s/s collection. Plus I like its simplicity compared to other New York shows, it is completely different. I think if you style most of the clothes differently, they look really nice. you can never judge clothes based on how they are style on a fashion show...cause it is a show...one thing I hate about the styling ...are the hats. These hats are awful:/

 

[adorefaith]

this is both terribly boring and completely ugly..
the clothes dont even look well made...

sorry....i dont get it...

 

[eternitygoddess]

bad.

 

[disco54]

there is nothing to get hun , this is a mediocre collection at best , if that . One cannot say , oohh other designers were all over the top and his designs were simple and cool , thats not the case because lots of other designers did a good job of presenting wearable glamorous simple clothes , spare the few disco style chloe frocks at the end, the pirates of the carribean hat thing and the humpty dumpty pants justed looked straight up stupid and frumpy! I understand the whole artistic aproach and all but whatever , marc's fame and fortune came from wearable funky yet smart clothes , this is neither .

 

[Clem Kruczynski]

MJ own homage to economical crisis... not my cup of tea but he's done it again! He keeps our attention and make us think. Don't think it's uninspired. Actually I think's so well thought. IMO he wanted to make real ugly clothes.


Next season he might show us the actual pretty version of these... :S

 

[unipine]

there is nothing to get hun , this is a mediocre collection at best , if that . One cannot say , oohh other designers were all over the top and his designs were simple and cool , thats not the case because lots of other designers did a good job of presenting wearable glamorous simple clothes , spare the few disco style chloe frocks at the end, the pirates of the carribean hat thing and the humpty dumpty pants justed looked straight up stupid and frumpy! I understand the whole artistic aproach and all but whatever , marc's fame and fortune came from wearable funky yet smart clothes , this is neither .

i agree. i hate it when Marc gets into these modes. this is so bad and unwearable that i'm not sure how to even respond to it.

 

[ro_na912]

this collection, together with the marc by marc jacobs collection this season have totally pissed me off.May be I am too superficial,I don't care what inspiration he got...the clothes are just..doesn't look right. I hope what he is doing is good for him...but I really can't get these.

 

[liberty33r1b]

this looks soo extremely old (which i would normally love when done with a modern twist)

my fav one has to be this one:
http://www.***************/image/2008/W6/020820082214010156.jpg

minus the boots. and I fear without the brooch it wouldn't even excite me as much ......

 

[liberty33r1b]

I liked Marc much better when he didn't try so hard to be avant garde.

This isn't him at all. If I didn't know it was a Marc Jacobs collection, I never would've thought it was a Marc Jacobs collection.

exactly. omg this is soo sad....

 

[BerlinRocks]

i don't understand all this 80s vibe in the shows at the moment...
he's done the same boots than @ 3.1 Lim.... styled pretty much the same way....
when i'm seeing some of these looks i'm thinking of last Pilati's collection 70s-80s chic women....
or perhaps we can link this one to Marc's Fall 2007....

and FINALLY Kim's playing live at his show.... never too late.... !

anyway that's pretty good.

review from style.com

NEW YORK, February 8, 2008 – "We're ready, we're ready to start the show." That was Marc Jacobs himself, addressing the audience from the stage (stage, not runway) at 7:11 p.m. At 7:17, as Kevin Federline was still taking his seat in one of the makeshift, nightclub-style VIP booths not far from Selma Blair, Gretchen Mol, and Helena Christensen, Sonic Youth struck the first dissonant chord of "Jams Run Free," and Jacobs' first model walked out past the band. She wore a shawl-collar pouch-back coat in a shade that looked like camel, although we can't say for sure, concert lighting not being the best kind to illuminate such details. (One thing was immediately clear—whether he shows on a Friday or a Monday, it's always going to be an event.)

The day switch and that revolutionary mere-17-minutes-behind-schedule start time weren't the only changes since last season. If Spring was all about sex, overt sex specifically, this show—his old friend Kim Gordon's gyrations notwithstanding—had a willfully sedate quality.

Afterward, when asked about his inspirations, Jacobs replied, "I really wasn't very inspired this season. I just live my life." OK. When pressed, he offered a few more words: "Calm. Glamour. Casual. Beautiful women." Vague as that sounds, it was in fact an apt description for a collection that hinted at the eighties of Jacobs' early days in New York. It was there in the puffy headbands the models wore around their foreheads and the clubby atmosphere inside the Armory (some said it gave them Regine's, though the set's menacing scaffolding and the unsettling black-and-white images that played on a screen behind the band also suggested a more downtown environment). And it was there in the palette of soft pastels and grays and the relaxed (in terms of shape, not sensibility), somewhat masculine cut of the classic clothes.

Jacobs showed plain-front button-downs with straight skirts; almost preppy popcorn-knit sweaters with narrow shorts; a cashmere sweater that spelled out HARDCORE paired with baggy leather pants; and a thigh-length bomber over a full, shin-grazing skirt. But his big focus was jackets and coats, many of which came with vertical folds of fabric gathered in the back above wide, hip-slung sashes. Dresses, too, came with pronounced volumes at the back. For evening, their stiff folds were replaced by gold or silver lamé pantsuits (paging Loulou de la Falaise) and drippy bias-cut velvet gowns.

Was this collection, in its relative tameness and intriguing air of sexless safety, a rebuff of sorts to last season's detractors who reprimanded Jacobs as much for his off-the-wall collection as his perennial lateness? Could be. These clothes are challenging for different reasons than were the difficult transparent pieces he featured for Spring, but they'll be no less coveted. As for the show's accessories, women everywhere will have him to thank when other designers follow his lead and start producing a lower heel. That's the power of Jacobs' mystique.

– Nicole Phelps

 

[Deleted member 7575]

brilliant


I had my expectations low because of last season (a major let down apointment for me).

Love the shapes, the structured outerwear with the dropped waist, the flow of the gowns, the general mood and play with textures in the fabrics, absolutely brilliant. And, the overall sensitivity is definitive Marc, i'd point to this collection in trying to pinpoint the relevance and modernity of the Marc Jacobs DNA.

My only complaint is that I would have like to have seen some other options in the color, although I love that he's using all those pales for a fall/winter collection which'll probably be a major story for the season.

As much as I love this, it really shows how much influence Stefano Pilati is having over top fashion labels. Calvin Klein and now this...

 

[mackos]

The spring collection was faboulous, I'm feeling a bit disappointed by this

 

[Label Basher]

Afterward, when asked about his inspirations, Jacobs replied, "I really wasn't very inspired this season. I just live my life."

Well there you go then.

I don't like it. I can't even see any pieces that you can usually pick out from a horrible collection.

Like the sports world at present where all the girlfriends are getting the blame for losing can we blame Marc's boyfriend for this lol

 

[gius]

i liked the collection too
if it wasn't for the HQs i would certainly not have liked it as much
to not have been able to see the details closeup

i love the use of fleece
and the texture in the headbands, (invisible in the elle.com pics) there are some nice things i wonder what it is
and also many odd accessories

and i dont usually like this palette of pastels or is it sea tones? but they are very clean and nice to see after a long time
feeling of robes in this collection... all about comfort and keeping warm

it looks very based on someone playing with their hand drawings just moving things around for design

so thanks to robotjonez for the HQs !

 

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[gius]

^ ! they're like 'lotus shoes'

thanks for posting the details, CHB
so i see velvet !