Marc Jacobs present his fall 2012 collection on a spectacular and huge set of the construction paper folly looked like a broken castle designed by his friend, the artist Rachel Feinstein. A pretend fountain was perched halfway down the curving runway.
The looks were eclectic, vaguely Victorian and dizzingly-rich with detail. Seventeenth-century Plymouth Rock meets the twenty-first-century street-style scene.
The wild outfits were inspired by the likes of Anna Piaggi and Lynn Yaeger, fashion eccentrics of the first order and mash-up artists long before the Sartorialist arrived on the scene. Piaggi has never gone anywhere without a hat and Jacobs had some doozies on the runway.
Slightly rumpled and eccentrically layered but completely appropriate for the British Parliament, the fall runways were a brilliant mash-up of ladylike fashion.
Woolen stoles top button wool coat worn over the patchwork skirt cropped pants. Colors are all over the map, ranging from paisley oversized print to floral pencil doodles and drips from the hologram appliqués dress. Tinsel appear everywhere. And volume, in contrast with a collection of strict, severe last year, emerging as well.
