Marc Jacobs F/W 2016.17 by David Sims

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Look at this campaign... the main stars who really shine and actually convey some mood and character are women over 40... I love Susan's shot!

 

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It's all so wrong, but it feels so right!

 

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+Jamie Bocher, Anna Cleveland and David Johansen

Jamie & Anna, TABBOO!

From the first time I saw Tabboo! performing in drag at the Pyramid Club, I was inspired - in every sense of the word. His persona has always been larger-than-life and his energy absolutely magical. From the outset of this collection, it was a dream of mine to ask Tabboo! (aka Stephen Tashjian) if he would consider collaborating with me to bring his incredible artistry and vision to our collection.
As an artist, Stephen’s references, knowledge, and creativity are absolutely boundless. His eye and artistic vision is unique, thoughtful and extraordinarily considered.

As a person, he brought his joy, kindness, generosity and beautiful sense of humor to the design studio, lighting up all of us who had the privilege of working along side him.

The opportunity to collaborate with an artist like Tabboo! and the musicians, actors, models, stylists and other creators, in any capacity, is one of the greatest pleasures and rewards of my job and one that continues to stimulate, energize and always keep me wanting more!

Wearing two of the extraordinary couture pieces from this collection are my two dear friends and great muses Jamie Bochert and Anna Cleveland photographed by David Sims for our Fall/Winter 2016 ad campaign.

DAVID, Soul

I was about 9 or 10 years old when the New York Dolls performed at the Mercer Arts Center in New York City. While I was too young to attend the show, it was the first time I was introduced to the Dolls and became aware of the brilliantly aloof, authentically arrogant and divine David Johansen. I always wanted to look like David. I wanted to dress like him, act like him and emulate his style.
Many years later (following “The Grunge Collection” at Perry Ellis) it was the morning of my first show under my own name and I still didn’t like the music we had selected. I decided to put on the New York Dolls (their first studio recording) and let it play from the beginning.

The Dolls, with their sequins, lame, feather boa’s, platform shoes, sleazy and trashy glamorous style was then and will always be an inspiration to me. Throughout the years working on shows and considering the music (that is always an integral part of the runway), there is never a season that goes by where I don’t believe that TRASH is the perfect song for a show.

As David Johansen said in the Bob Gruen book on the New York Dolls (one of my style bibles), The Dolls didn’t discriminate gay or straight. They were beyond sexuality. They were for everybody. They were not an elitist sort of thing and sexuality didn’t matter. “I like the way the Dolls were into what kids really liked about rock and roll – which was do whatever the **** you want to, offend the grown-ups, and behave like the way a teenager really wants to behave.” –Richard Hell

The forever soulful and stylish David Johansen photographed by David Sims for our Fall/Winter 2016 ad campaign.

 

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Good lord, how many billions of people are in this campaign??

 

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