It's not that his designs are awful. They're fine--because he has his assistants go and find vintage clothing items that he can base his designs which he then sells for thousands of dollars on. What a scam.
If I had more money to spend on a dress, I'd be much better off dropping $110 on a Dadadie Brucke construction anyway.
Okay, that's finally off my chest. Carry on...
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Okay, that made no sense.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Winona Ryder looks pretty bad I think in the photos on their site. And doesn't that page with her on the couch and like a dozen platefuls of food on the floor kind of gross you out? I mean, to quote myself in middle school, "Gag me with a spoon - three times and make it official."
But then I think, who am I to judge? I lust after $1000+ vintage sunburst SG guitars, victorian homes worth over half a million, and Italian furniture that is so pricey you would have to call to get a quote. True, I'll probably never be able to afford any of that, but I guess deep down I am materialistic. So it would be wrong for me to get upset with my idols for posing for a fancy clothing line, huh?
Me in talking to myself SHOCKAH!
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.thepaperbagprincess.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=TPBP&Category_Code=cf4
Marc Jacobs is a very successful and amusing copyist. No more a hack than Ralph Lauren. So what if all they do is collect examples of certain already-established looks, if it makes people happy and provides a useful predictability. The same criticism could go for felicity workwear fave agnes b, who just rehashes fashion of the early 1960s French cinema.
Anyway, the only Marc Jacobs I have are the famous soft black leather precusor over-the-knee boots. I don't think of them as the Mod kitsch his name has come to denote, just the downtown New York style.
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)
xpost and kirsten is FURTHER otm with the vintage sizing issues, I'm a size 1/2 and tall with long arms and big feet; nothing fits except certain skirts and sleeveless tops.
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah MCLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)
I wih Kirsten would come vintage clothes shopping with me in Dublin.
― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)
xpost Mmmyes, I have sizing issues as well, being of average height with long limbs and not particularly curvy, but I get lucky here and tehre.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Email me dates!!
― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
The same could be said about Jacobs, certainly, but the circumstances are quite different.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)
I dragged bnw to Tokyo Joe on Sunday -- luckily as it turns out because otherwise I would have stared off into space interminably as they searched vainly to find the 2nd piece of a 2-piece ensemble I was considering.
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)
Yes, but tis still difficult for us short and tiny people to find pieces that fit properly, Teeny. In my case, trousers always need to be altered as it was created for a 5ft7 supermodel.
But they have a pretty cool women's Marc Jacobs turquoise winter coat at Tokio-7 for $800 in the window.
$800? I just choked.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Allyzay, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)
That said, his grunge collection for Perry Ellis remains unforgivable; I wish I could find some pictures of it online so that I could trot out an example of the sheer hideousness of it all.
― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― tiiiiiiiiiim (tiiiiiiiiiim), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)
only if you have the time and the luck to find vintage pieces that you like. in the bay area good stuff disappears immediately, half of it to people who work at the shops. Also, there is something to be said for fabric that isn't 40 years old. All of my vintage clothes fall apart after a year.
Not that I buy Marc Jacobs, I'm just saying, not everyone likes to spend every waking second trolling through all the vintage shops in their city for the one item a month that works.
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)
His bags are for girls that don't really carry bags and I like this. I love mod and as much as I hate that it's the trend right now, I also love that I can actually buy some new articles of it instead of hunting it down.
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)
But his stuff is mostly nothing I can't find in the fab thrift stores around here. I admit I've sold stuff on eBay with 'v Marc Jacobs' remarks but I do want to SELL it, after all.
― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― jed (jed_e_3), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)
xpost I've never ordered from the Dadadie Brucke site for some reason, probably because I wasn't thinking about it the last time I had a bunch of money. But if you send in your measurements, I doubt she gan go wrong.
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)
This just strikes me as... rockist. I don't get why people get so worked up over authenticity in clothing- it's supposed to be fun, not something to really be taken seriously. It seems kind of odd to pick one designer out in particular for being derivitive when they all do it to one degree or another. I like some Marc Jacobs things (like this coat, which I would love to have if I ever stumbled over it on sale), but yeah-- he's not all that amazing.
― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)
I will say that the Marc Jacobs line is like $400 too expensive for what it is and the Marc line is $40 too expensive for what it is. Does that make sense?
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)
(P.S. Part of me rolls my eyes at the nth mod revival this year, but most of the rest of me breathes a sigh of relief and says, "Well, at least it isn't the fucking eighties.")
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)
http://vogue.co.uk/shows/Ready-to-Wear/Autumn_Winter_2003/New_York/Marc_by_Marc_Jacobs/Full/00330f.jpg
― felicity (felicity), Monday, 24 November 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― lyra (lyra), Monday, 24 November 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― katharine (katharine), Monday, 24 November 2003 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)
Maybe, ohh, seven years ago I had to interview Marc Jacobs for Harper's Bazaar. To be fair to him, he's no more guilty of hiving off music-based fashion trends than any of the rest of us - and I spent a happy hour gabbing with him about all sorts of music/fashion interfaces and found him to be as knowledgeable as any of us - if not more so. And look, please: Kim Gordon is a *total* fashionista and always has been - I used to wonder if she lived in a cubbyhole at Patricia Field and was actually dismayed upon meeting her (ten years ago) that she was *so* fash-ONG.
Sarah P: you should check out Gehrenreich model Peggy Moffitt's collection for Comme des Garçons, it's well cool but save your pennies.
― suzy (suzy), Monday, 24 November 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 November 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)
lol @ internshttp://i.imgur.com/KJ0VM.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/f611L.jpg
― City of Jorts (Steve Shasta), Friday, 25 March 2011 07:00 (fifteen years ago)
The gossip at Edgy Style Mag says that the photographer who shot the Winona Ryder campaign (let's just call him Jurgen the German) shagged her six ways from Sunday at the shoot. And Jarvis Cocker's wife is employed as MJ's main stylist. Though I must admit at Edgy Style Mag we don't really work Marc Jacobs' looks in our own wardrobes - we're a bit more into the Antwerps, esp. Raf Simons.
― adam, Friday, 25 March 2011 15:59 (fifteen years ago)
https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/l/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/p750x750/14553141_1798505870434780_1004535306562568192_n.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 06:00 (nine years ago)