For Spring 2013, Marc Jacobs didn’t imagine a woman in flow’ry prints, prancing about in air, fluttering frocks. Instead, Jacobs imagines a woman whose brand of femininity is a little less dainty, and certainly more commanding. The designer delivered a pop-art inspired collection, giving us a series of bold, stripey looks.
Jailbird stripes covered everything from jackets to low-slung pencil and a-line skirts boasting exaggerated scalloped hems. The hipbone-baring bottoms seemed like a blast from the (recent) past. We haven’t really seen this silhouette since the high waist was reinstated as the “it” silhouette in the mid-to-late aughts.
Jacobs didn’t stop there. He re-imagined his beloved stripes in dizzying swirls, swung them in panels from skirt hems alongside checkerboard strips, and tiled them onto frocks in patent leather-y fabric.
Jacobs’ collection took a turn for the whimsical with a few frocks and skirt suits boasting high, ruffled collars with cartoonish white trim.
This collection is a vast improvement on what the designer offered for fall. Jacobs’ clothes always have that wearable theatricality that keep people flocking to his boutiques, and this season, Marc delivered. As for celebs, I would love to see Solange Knowles in that peekaboo shoulder striped gown, or Kerry Washington in that drop-waist tiled frock.
What do you think?
~Jihan
September 15, 2012 2:25 pm
I think I just got dizzy.
September 15, 2012 2:58 pm
Hmmm I’m trying to like it but I don’t think so
September 15, 2012 3:14 pm
It’s a mod, mod, world it seems. Most of these models look sickly. I think Marc was sleep walking.
September 15, 2012 4:18 pm
I didn’t like any of this!
September 15, 2012 6:14 pm
Too literal. This is not the Marc I know. This is not what a Marc Jacobs woman looks like!
September 15, 2012 6:25 pm
No ma’am Marc. I can’t with those low-waisted skirts. What?
September 15, 2012 7:51 pm
I really can’t get past how sick the models look, and it’s not their bodies as much as the obvious pallor. They look sick.
Some of them seem to lean a bit closer to the male side of androgyny. Are any of them men?
September 15, 2012 7:56 pm
who let the zombies out?
September 15, 2012 9:05 pm
The short pieces are hot
September 15, 2012 9:06 pm
I like the longer striped dresses, but not the drop-waist pencil skirts
September 15, 2012 11:40 pm
This looks a mess. #icant … I definitely can’t
September 16, 2012 2:26 am
Looks like a circus. I don’t know.
September 16, 2012 8:09 am
Awful, fugly, tacky etc. Just no, Marc.
September 16, 2012 12:34 pm
That models’ waist with the bluish gray skirt and top just made me smh, she is way too skinny and unhealthy! I’ve seen store mannequins with better shape than most of these sickly models smh
September 16, 2012 1:20 pm
I didn’t like any of this at all!
September 16, 2012 1:43 pm
these looks make me want to go to sleeps
September 16, 2012 6:59 pm
Nothing inspiring…just seems dreary and sad!
September 16, 2012 7:07 pm
Jacobs’ show is always flabbergasting yet you still find something to purchase.
September 16, 2012 7:23 pm
i’m sorry but the models look like they had gastro and are dehydrated
September 16, 2012 7:52 pm
All of these outfits are tacky.
September 16, 2012 7:55 pm
I’m not to sure how I feel about this collection
September 17, 2012 5:22 am
i love the mickey mouse crop top.lol
September 17, 2012 9:48 am
Aside from the models, these pieces are SICK. Y’all are asleep.
September 17, 2012 11:18 am
I’m little surprised at these responses since this collection was so critically acclaimed! Oh well… I like it…
September 17, 2012 7:25 pm
Very Clown/Circus-ish