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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 ...