Marc Jacobs made an impact last night punctuating the catwalk with bold monochrome prints.
From stripey jumpsuits to polka-dot dresses the U.S. designer showcased an array of Sixties-inspired designs.
With expressionless faces the models let the statement garments do all the talking, as front row spectators including Alexa Chung, Hailee Steinfeld and Carine Roitfeld sat mesmerised.
For the past five days, the chatter at New York Fashion Week has been about softening the edges.
Carolina Herrera showed an abstract geometric print on Monday, while Elie Tahari took his prints from Palm Beach, mixing palm leaves, leopard skin and tropical flowers.
In earlier previews, Thakoon Panichgul had playful birds, Suno had a retro cell phone print and Jason Wu had prints reminiscent of an X-Ray.
At Rebecca Taylor, the print was Hawaiian, with fish scales at Monique Lhuillier and ‘space clouds’ at Nicole Miller.
But Marc Jacobs changed the conversation – as he often does – after going graphic.
‘Prints are personality, they have emotion, they tell a story,’ said Stacey Bendet, designer of Alice and Olivia – herself wearing a leopard-print dress on Monday to present a collection that included a variety of florals – from digital prints to painterly and candy-coloured designs.
Over the past five days, the chatter at New York Fashion Week was about softening the edges. Predictably, Marc Jacobs changed the conversation after going graphic.
Black-and-white stripes followed by red stripes, tan stripes and more black-and-white stripes came in rapid sequence down the runway.
There was a mod mood to the spring collection, especially the short T-shirt dresses with scalloped hemlines, but not a hint of Jacob’s mystical forest theme he had for the current autumn season.
‘It was so graphic with no frills,’ said Adam Glassman, creative director of O, The Oprah magazine.
Stylist and fashion commentator Mary Alice Stephenson called it ‘candy-striper cool’.
Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week continues through Thursday before the fashion crowd heads to London, Milan and Paris.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
