The designer’s latest runway collection is about keeping our eyes open
Earlier this week, a post on the Marc Jacobs Instagram account showed Marc Jacobs the designer blowing out birthday candles in his office, celebrating his label turning 40 this year. There were so many candles that they created huge flames, billowing upwards and fanning outwards to the point where Jacobs grabbed his logo tote bag–an accessory that has become ubiquitous on city streets–and run out of the room. Was the fire real? Was it staged? Is everyone okay? It was hard to tell.
Well, maybe a little with the playing with proportionality and the attention to the sartorial banality of pieces like shorts and suit jackets. Really though, this was about perception, about wonder, as he titled the collection, and the ways in which our view of things evolve. As Jacobs wrote in his show notes: “By examining the memorable and the mundane, we abstract and exaggerate with a disorienting familiarity in our desire to express something naive and elegant.