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Two For The Road.(Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton)(Brief article)

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| March 01, 2009 | Little, Frances | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Frances Little PHOTOGRAPHED BY PATRICK DEMARCHELIER

Marc Jacobs has been wowing critics, inspiring a cult following, and taking fashionhigh and lowto the streets for the past 25 years. This season, with his visionary collections for Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton, the designer gets a double dose of success.

Marc Jacobs does quite nicely with his empire of enviable brands, coveted bags, and conspicuous celebrity clientele. But give him a few hundred bolts of fabric and a catwalk, and he'll show you what he's really made of. His collections for Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton were the jewels of the season: high pageantry bursting with juicy colors, madcap trimmings, and clothes concocted from a world atlas of ideas. Jacobs describes his creative impulse as a kind of "invented exoticism," one that starts with a cultural reference to, say, Josephine Baker or Hopi masks, then morphs into a pair of wildly feathered heels. For his own collection, those instincts led to dust-bowl cotton prints laced with sparkly Lurex threads ...

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