Jacque Marcel
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the rest of the collection is great, i love it
fashionista-ta said:Coke, we're still in pre-order mode for Fall to the best of my knowledge, but if it's on the website, you oughtta be able to get pricing and/or pre-order from any of the stores. I use the one in NYC, and the benefit of his not doing business in my state is no tax on that hefty price tag, just shipping Same thing with Hollywould.
Paradise, great analysis of Marc. Simon Doonan's billboards are right ... girls really do love Marc Jacobs. Perhaps that's the measure of a really great designer ... when a shirt is not just a shirt but you feel a connection to a person and an attitude. Carolina Herrera's like that too.
I'm sure there's different viewpoints on this, but I'm not interested in clothes as pure art. OK, I am, but not the ones in my closet. I want my stuff, particularly where I live and what I wear, to express me. And my perception (and indeed he's gone on the record saying this) is that Marc is totally open to that. He doesn't have this precise vision of how we should be. He doesn't want to make us over, he doesn't want us to change. He likes us the way we are. It's more than enough that we want to take his stuff and make it part of who we are. He has talked about his idea of American girls being very casual, ready to perch on a curb no matter what we're wearing, evening gown or jeans. That's the Marc Jacobs attitude. It's the difference between that attitude and the Louis Vuitton/French attitude that's the reason that, despite all the common elements, Marc Jacobs looked so different from Louis Vuitton for Fall.
One thing I found quite interesting is the style.com stats that were in I think WWD Magazine. They tracked how many views the collections got for I believe it was 12 days after posting, and they printed the top 10. (It might be even more interesting to see which ones people kept going back to even after that.) I remember D&G was #1. But ALL of Marc's collections--Marc, Marc by Marc, and LV--were in the top 10, making him the designer who attracted the most attention. I couldn't take my eyes off the Marc Jacobs Fall collection and kept going back to it. I agree with Vogue's commentary that we don't yet know what it means. But I know it was and is important.