Video: Behind the scenes of Marc Jacobs’s Diana Vreeland-inspired collection
updated the 14 July 2015 à 18:31Watch the designer recreate the cultural icon’s living room as a stunning backdrop to his Spring/ Summer 2015 collection.
It’s not often that designers radically shift their theme from the previous season but Marc Jacobs has managed to do that and stay on top. His latest Spring/ Summer 2015 collection veers from the military tones he had going on at the last show and instead, takes inspiration from late Vogue editor, tastemaker, driving force behind the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute and the very quotable cultural icon, Diana Vreeland.
Jacobs stated that the inspiration came from reading Vreeland’s Memos and re-reading Allure, the book of images with her captions and quotes and as such, he wanted to recreate her world in his pieces. The designer spared no detail as he recreated Vreelands’s famous red living room (or garden in hell as she liked to call it) with red walls and a painted sofa backdrop. He even had waiters hand out Mrs Vreeland’s favourite drink, vodka, in lowball glasses, complete with lemon peels. The scene complimented the clothes on show as opposed to upstaging them, with every item having some echo of Vreeland’s dramatic sartorial style. Her penchant for Kabuki-style makeup was also present in the makeup on the models who stepped out with pure white skin and heavily made up eyes and lips.
Marc Jacobs’s shows are always the highlight of New York Fashion Week and this season the designer proved his mettle with this opulent tribute to the late Diana Vreeland.
Karen George
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