O Say, Can You See These Marc Jacobs Fashions?
EntertainmentFashion. It’s all around us, and it’s happening all the time. Specifically, fashion happened Thursday night at Marc Jacobs’s show at New York’s historic Ziegfeld Theatre. The event was structured as a movie premiere—complete with its own trailer, marquee, and branded popcorn bags.
Reports Vanity Fair:
Once the audience was seated, a live orchestra onstage piped up a jazzy line that puckered into garage rock, and the stream of models walked a world premiere-worthy red carpet outside the theater for the usual pit of runway photographers—plus a throng of genuine oglers. Then they processed into the building and through that snazzy lobby to the theater.
But what of the fashions themselves? The entire collection sort of looks like the costumes for the college production of a student-written musical about the history of the United States that gets many, many facts wrong for the sake of drama.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the highlights and see if we can deconstruct its narrative.
Here we have a very patriotic ensemble that represents the founding of the United States. The model inhabits the role of a couture-wearing Lady Liberty. Her metallic skirt is covered in cut-out stars, suggesting a world power that would eventually display a dominance far beyond the 50 states on its flag.
Next we have a gown with just six of its myriad buttons fastened together – a clever way of representing the US after stripping itself of British rule and winning the freedom to wear striped underwear of any color we choose.