Marc Jacobs F/W 2025.26 New York

[VicTebis]

For me, this is Balenciaga by Christian Siriano

 

[vogue28]

VOGUE.COM

 

[Marc10]

I really don’t mind if he wants to crazy and experimental at this stage of his career. The problem is that it doesn’t look like he has anything meaningful to say. These collections are not pushing anything forward, they’re not even fun. It feels like he’s just doing it for the sake of it. I don’t see much passion in these clothes. I don’t feel much at all.

 

[Squizree]

Yeah there's nothing inherently offensive or wrong with this collection. I also love the fantasy in this. But for someone who the industry (esp Anna W) has been shoving down our throats for the last QUARTER OF A CENTURY, insisting that he's the best thing since Taco Tuesdays, this so weak. His work has always been heavily pastiche.

 

[Simera]

I am just tired of this cartoonish doll style he's been doing for what seems like years. Always the same location, always the same poses on the model and the same angle for the runway photos of vogue. It's just tiresome that it's the same, time and time again. And only 19 looks, is he running out of ideas on how to keep doing this same collection?

 

[IndigoHomme]

Marc should stop painting his nails, the chemicals are harming him.

 

[jeanclaude]

A graduation collection from CSM...what´s next for him?? Applying for an internship at Dior??

 

[MModa]

The collection is definitely striking and beautiful in it's awkward way. I particularly like the shapes of the dresses. Also, the shoes are funky and fabulous.

 

[Kanzai]

I would take the clownwears of current Viktor&Rolf over these any days. Stop pretending you are Rei's heir Jacobs!

Presenting the collections off calendar together but Jacquemus showed he was much more relevant, my goodness. And I'm far from being a fan of that Jacquemus guy. Marc rly thinks he's more elevated than the rest of the NYFW Lol.

 

[Avonlea]

But he is. We can discuss how pointless his collections are these days, but the design, execution, fabric choice, taste are still miles higher than 99% of NYFW designers.

 

[zacatecas570]

Those big shoulders are going to be all over the covers and editorials.

 

[Lola701]

I’m not moved by it.
And maybe the saddest thing is that despite the extravaganza a constant praise he receive from social media, his work seems to live in a bubble for a moment.
By the start of Couture week, we will forget about it.

I totally respect the fact that this is how he wants to take advantage of that total creative freedom but as someone who wanted the Chanel job, I kind of ask myself: why aren’t you making your own house your Chanel job?

 

[Kite]

This one was much more of a miss than the last few. Messier and less edited and impactful.

 

[90sfan]

Only Martin Margiela and Helmut Lange walked away at the right moment. The rest, Marc included, are just bathing in their own sh**. Though Marc was never of that level as Margiela and Helmut, but still, he should have retired to Florida when it was the moment. This is so sad and desperate.

 

[Kanzai]

But he is. We can discuss how pointless his collections are these days, but the design, execution, fabric choice, taste are still miles higher than 99% of NYFW designers.

He's the most theatrical one but not the best ( at least for now ). His fabric choice and taste are hardly superior to Khaite and Thom Browne for example. Idk but sometimes the NYFW underestimation feels so forced.

 

[NakedAndAfraid]

I guess the Thom Browne comparison is the most apt now. Both have the fugly and inane market on lock. It looks like burning money to me, but it obviously works to some degree...

 

[Lola701]

I guess the Thom Browne comparison is the most apt now. Both have the fugly and inane market on lock. It looks like burning money to me, but it obviously works to some degree...

But I think Thom has the advantage of having a real connection in the end between the runway and the stores.
Someone who buys Thom Browne can want a one of a kind runway piece. And even if not, the creative expression on the runway is not just an isolated exercise.

With Marc, the shows are really in an island by themselves…From the eco-system of fashion and of Marc Jacobs the brand. And I don’t think someone who wore Marc Jacobs 25 years ago still find the ethos of the brand in his latest work.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

I do find there to be a disparity between the Thom Browne we see on the runway and the Thom Browne we see in the shops, but there’s still a seasonal through line. Even if it doesn’t all add up, the fabrics and some of the treatments make some sort of an appearance. And of course the custom commissions would elevate that (even though they look bad, but that’s his choice of cut that I do not favour one bit).

With Marc there’s nothing like that. This is just to peddle the same platform boots, and all those bags that aren’t really that great at all.

 

[Frida]

 

[LadyJunon]

I really hate this Loewe/CDG/Westwood era he's been stuck in. SS23 was exquisite, but this type of look gets really old, really fast.