Team… UMM?
I love when divas fight! Suzy Menkes, Fashion Editor of the International Herald Tribune, was a bit pissed she had to wait 2 hours for the Marc Jacobs show to start and she was quoted telling WWD, “I would like to murder him with my bare hands and never see another Marc Jacobs show in my entire life.”
In her review of the show lovingly labeled ‘Marc Jacobs Disappoints with a Freak Show’, Suzy repeatedly takes stabs at Marc’s collection, saying the reverse show was a blatant rip off of a show Martin Margiela did over a decade ago, and that “the concept of clothes sliced apart and attached to sheer voile was just a weak version of designs pioneered fashion eons ago by Comme des Garçons.” She ended her rant by saying:
Ouch!
Marc intern voiced his opinion about the people whining because he was late by saying:
He also complains about not feeling “a part of the American fashion community,” continuing to say, “I really feel like an outsider, I think we all do, and we feel unloved here, so we want to go somewhere else.” As for the claims Suzy made about Marc stealing others ideas he has this to say:
After all of that you start to think Marc will just be the bigger person, but he takes a stab at Suzy too by saying, “She [Menkes] wants to observe a Jewish holiday, but I start a show two hours late [and] she gets her nose bent out of shape.”
The question for me is, was Marc’s collection so terrible? Sure, there were things I would never personally wear, but that goes for every runway show I’ve ever seen. That’s the allure of it all. There are normally a couple pieces that will charm your pants off, and the rest you just get ideas from. You see a wretched dress in a great fabric, you store that in your memory and look for something you actually wear in a similar fabric. Perhaps I’m completely wrong, but that is just how I see fashion. I’m not Marc Jacobs, so I’m not going to see everything his way and think everything he thinks is beautiful, beautiful, and the same goes for Suzy or you, but that’s the point or we’d all be a bunch of clones. What do you think about this feud? Am I completely wrong about fashion, and should think about changing careers again? We want to know your feelings!
Marc Jacobs photo courtesy of NY Mag. Suzy Menkes photo courtesy of Amber Rowlands Photography.
See what other bloggers think:
I like the bags in this collection very much. As Dania from Senora Cartera said, this has been one of his best bag collections recently.
The wacky shoes are cute. Sure, no-one would wear them, but the very idea…
I loved Marc by Marc Jacobs show very much, that’s where the real jems were. What do you think about the Marc show?
Oh, it was great! I loved how retro it was, and there was a taupe and orage pleated skirt I absolutely adored.
The random legos all over the place were awesome!!!
I think Suzy’s piece is well-written, with legitimate criticisms.
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