Monday, September 10: Marc Jacobs
Designer: Marc Jacobs

• “Marc Jacobs kicked romanticism to the curb with a bold New York fashion week show dominated by hypnotizing stripes and delivered at crackerjack speed.” {AFP}
• “Let’s switch gears: For the past five days, the chatter at New York Fashion Week has been about softening the edges, but Marc Jacobs changed the conversation–as he often does–after going graphic at his show Monday night.” {The Associated Press}
• “Points to Marc for not doing the same old thing over and over–he has firmly turned his back on neo-Victorian coats and Dr. Seuss hats and proffers something entirely new, even if this means a plethora of vertical lines only occasionally relieved by a leopard print.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “A vortex of high-fashion moments, centered on stripes.” {Daily Front Row}
• “like chess this was a seriously cerebral fashion show, where a few simple ideas were repeated and refined recurrently in a striking technical display.” {Fashion Wire Daily}
• “This wasn’t sex appeal in an aggressive Versace kind of way–not that there’s anything wrong with that. No, we’re talking here about Marc Jacobs.” {fashionologie}
• “This wasn’t the soft focus apparent in other collections, but it had a rigorous purity that meant you could fairly hear the whistle of the wind as it powered past. Ace.” {Financial Times}
• “With skirts cut perilously low on the hips and jackets cropped to reveal tummies, Marc maintained his signature subversive twist to conservative staples.” {Grazia Daily}
• “Putting the catwalk on fast-forward is a psychological trick invented by Christian Dior 65 years ago. If Dior changed the walking pace from stately to brisk in the 40s, Jacobs is now experimenting with putting it on fast-forward.” {The Guardian}
• “The show–from its Edie Sedgwick hair to its graphic handbags–was an eye-zinger and a blockbuster.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “For the first time in a while, a designer has successfully pushed the sex button in a compelling way. Remember McQueen’s bumster trousers from the mid-’90s? That was a frankly raw style that eventually set in motion the near-universal trend of low-riding jeans. Mr. Jacobs has done something perverse with the straight office suit, a symbol of conservatism and get-ahead careerism.” {The New York Times}
• “It takes a certain wink to make mom’s dowdy suits look like jailbait. Marc Jacobs was winking at us–as usual.” {Speakeasy/The Wall Street Journal}
• “The monochrome, amphetamine-sharp brilliance of the designer’s vision cut a precise swathe through all the uncertain murk that swirls around pop culture right now.” {Style.com}
• “Jacobs has a uniquely suave talent for distilling all these ingredients into a heady brew that ultimately bears nothing but his own emphatic signature and looks not so much retro as, well, very Next Season.” {Vogue.com}
• “Jacobs stripped down everything for spring. Or should we say stripe-d down? Because what Jacobs did for the polka-dot in autumn of 2011, he’s about to do for stripes next season.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “If Jacobs startled a bit with his economy of message, the clothes looked beautiful and sexy.” {WWD}