The Marc Jacobs Spring 2009 collection (shown in NY on Sept 8 last year) was described by Nicole Phelps at Style.com as thus:"Mary Poppins goes to Dubai. The King and I meets The Postman Always Rings Twice. Yves Saint Laurent's Ballets Russes collection redux. There are as many meanings to derive from a Marc Jacobs collection as there are crashers at his shows. But listen to the litany that Jacobs himself provided after all 53 of his Spring looks—each one more colorful, more multilayered, and more zanily accessorized than the last—had circled his Stefan Beckman-designed Hall of Mirrors runway: 'America, womanly, Broadway, Perry Ellis, country, naïveté…'
...This season, nothing escaped Jacobs' roving eye or his melting-pot mentality. And in his hands even a thing like a farm-girl apron gets tweaked and reinterpreted until, impossibly, it becomes the very definition of contemporary chic. "It's about the joy of dressing up," he finally said backstage. And how."
One of the things (there are many!) I adore so much about street style/fashion blogs is that you get to see "real" people (not that stunning, genetically blessed models on a catwalk aren't "real" people, of course, but you understand what I am getting at) wearing clothes that were featured on the runway or at least interpretations of the clothes. How people style themselves and take inspiration and/or individual pieces from the catwalk and make them their own is a source of endless fascination for me.
I photographed Sabrina, Marco and, um, did a bad and didn't get the other girl's name — sorry! (above) before the Marc by Marc Jacobs event at Liberty the other night. They were all wearing pieces from Marc's Spring/Summer '09 collection (each works for the brand) and looked utterly fabulous. Importantly, they didn't look like they had just stepped off the runway — they had taken key pieces from the collection and worked them back to suit their own personal style.
Love the brocade of this dress cinched tightly at the waist with the wrapped fabric belt... oh, yes, and the Robert Jennifer quilted bag :)
And this jacket on Sabrina? Wow! The jacket (I kind of think it looks a bit American marching band inspired) was incredible. When I got close-up (I really wanted to touch it but I think I would have been overstepping the mark just a wee bit!) the little details — check the stars on the elbows, the gold zip at the front, the contrasting fabric on the pockets, the beautiful metallic tweed fabric — were fascinating. This is the kind of jacket that a little girl would love: either in her dressing up box for now (albeit a very expensive dressing up box piece!) or wrapped up in layers of tissue paper and put away until she is old enough to wear it "properly".
You can't really tell from the photo, but Sabrina had little navy leg-warmers over her pants:
Marco:
