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Want a recap on the Marc Jacobs #nyfw show? Eliza Doolittle-meets-Helen Bonham Carter-meets-Dior New Look, is what our senior catwalks editor, Sue Evans, is calling it.
“A madcap theatrical extravaganza marked by a wonderfully contradictory explosion of colour, fabric and print,” she added, referring to it as one of the singular statements of the week.
It was a collection about mismatched layering with exaggerated feminine silhouettes, as hourglass cropped coats with rounded hiplines, shoulder capelets and wide picture necklines were layered over cropped stovepipe pants or midi-length hobble skirts, all in a madcap mash-up of vinyls, plastic, leather, fur and sparkling rhinestones. Not to mention the floral velvets, brocade paisleys and exploded tweed.
And then there were those hats…
