The final period when the American designer Marc Jacobs staged a vogue show was on September 10, in New York. It was followed by an luxurious, star-studded celebration. Yesterday, the ebullient Jacobs was in sombre mood for he took a terse stem later closing Paris fashion week and the catwalk season with his latest collection for Louis Vuitton.
The accumulation itself was lighthearted, with a dreamy, bloom power artistic. Evening clothes were floor-length and floaty, in pale paisley chiffon alternatively tiered in overlapping wafers of sheer plum, wine and black. On leather jackets, coats and boots, the famous LV monogram was replaced by the Louis Vuitton appoint stitched in curling penmanship,
Ugg australia boots, nestling among embroidered lea flowers. Suede maxidresses were trimmed with electropositive silver python, when paisley blouses were poised with trompe l'oeil gem "necklaces".
There were non-retro pieces:elegant made-to-order trouser suits with Jacobs's signature of defined profile and quirky amplifying.
Never idea the clothing. The bottom line at Louis Vuitton bags. No stuff that Jacobs is a talented designer: the raiment are there to create the particular picture that convinces women to pay via the nostril for a handbag in array to feel they are slinging a slice of catwalk beauty over their shoulder.
Pick of the cluster were handbags in the orthodox Vuitton monogrammed charts, appliqued with anime scenes of rainbows, gardens, tortoises and flowers. The appliques, of multi-coloured, mismatched patches of linen, echo the success of last season's "graffiti" bags, drafted in collaboration with Stephen Sprouse, but are faultless in keeping with the softer, extra hippyish mood of afterward summer.
In the same childlike, tongue-in-cheek vein, mini flat handbags of flat, monogrammed patent leather came in the shape of mice, owls, butterflies and even toads.
Also flying straight above apt most-wanted lists around the world were butterfly-shaped hair accessories in turquoise and coral Louis Vuitton monogramm patent leather. The label made a profitable shove into hair accessories a annual antecedent with beauteous cube ponytail bands namely presently became a cult item.