New York - RTW SS13 - Marc Jacobs

City: New York
Season: Ready-To-Wear, Spring/Summer 2013
Show: Marc Jacobs

The name’s Sedgwick, Edie Sedgwick. At least this is what the clothes, not to mention the hair and make-up, were saying at Marc Jacobs’ Spring/Summer 2013 show last week. The busiest man in fashion pulled yet another sartorial one-eighty with his latest womenswear collection, forsaking Autumn/Winter 2012’s Dr. Seuss-inspired silhouettes in favour of something slinkier and far more streamlined. The pixie-like Ruby Jean Wilson opened the show in equally tiny shorts (top left), looking every inch the latter-day Factory Girl, while the likes of Eliza Cummings (bottom right) and Irina Lazareanu (centre left) sashayed down the catwalk in graphic monochrome separates, the former evoking a sexed-up Beetlejuice in vertical stripes. After last season’s riot of colour and texture Mr Jacobs has presented a rather more sedate colour palette for spring, with subtle flickers of taupe and mink breaking up a mostly monochromatic display. Along with Eliza’s super cool coat my favourite looks are Vanessa Axente’s horizontal striped sequins (bottom left) and Mackenzie Drazan’s slinky Art Deco stripes (top centre). Groovy.

This piece was originally published on alisonlaurabell.tumblr.com in September 2012.