Marc Jacobs’s anti-politics, from faux nails to creative freedom

Robin Givhan in The Washington Post:

Along the steps leading into the New York Public Library on the last day of June, a small crowd gathered to watch a parade of guests make their way inside for Marc Jacobs’s fashion show. The arrivals included fashion editors, stylists and friends — many of them wearing Jacobs’s designs. The more daring were dressed in recent runway ensembles, some of which made walking perilous and moving through narrow doorways a high-class geometry problem.

Actress Julia Fox wore a pale pink midi dress that engulfed her like an enormous peony, and her feet were clad in blush-colored pumps with an elongated toe that extended to comical, longboard lengths. “Saturday Night Live” star Ego Nwodim wore similar shoes in a darker tone and paired them with a tweed skirt and cropped jacket, each of which had been inflated to Willy Wonka proportions. Artist Amy Sherald was, perhaps, the most subdued of the group. She wore gray and white plaid trousers with a matching midriff-baring jacket that she tugged on gently, like a delighted child in her first-day-of-school finery.

Jacobs had not designated this collection by season. It was neither fall nor spring. It was simply runway 2026.

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