New York Fashion Week Marc Jocobs Spring 2007 Collection. Photo Credit: Splash News
New York 9/13/06 - In 1987, designer Marc Jacobs made fashion history when he won the CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent, the youngest person ever to achieve such a distinction. Nearly two decades later, Jacobs still manages to please the critics and fulfill his own creative urges.
The spring season’s collection was truly a marriage of comfort and style. For the most part, earthy colors and natural fibers dominated the runway. Each piece was a reinvention of sorts. Jacobs introduced traditional materials and used them in his own unconventional manner.
Color schemes were mostly neutrals: white, beige, black, and gray. His choice of material included gauze, muslin, linen and cotton. Fabrics easily worn from daytime to nighttime and a breath of fresh air, much like the collection itself. The collection consisted mostly of dresses, pants, and shirts, with a few extras thrown in.
Dresses came in four styles: colorful sequins, shifts of shredded fabric, and puffy stripes, and tee shirts. Despite the variation of look, all were loose and comfortable. Most of the dresses were high-necked in front, low in back. The shifts came in cream, white, teal, and gray, went to around knee-length and were defined by asymmetrically cut layers of fabric. Some dresses came in floaty horizontal stripes, belted in the middle and puffed out on the sides like sails on a windy day. Tee shirt dresses came in black and light brown, short-sleeved and stopped just above the knee.
Pants were equally loose and flowing, harem style just as in the story of Arabian Nights. They came in mostly white, black and beige, were slit up the sides, and either ended at the knee or went all the way to the ankle.
Shirts were presented in uneven layers of cotton, belted at the waist and very casually constructed. They complemented the easygoing style of the pants. The colors were again subdued earth tones: tans, creams, and grays. Jackets came in a baggy white style that ended at the knee, or short trenchcoats in metallic colors.
All in all, the collection stood out among the rest as one of the most comfortable, on the eyes as well as the body. Jacobs strove to have creations that were loose, casual, and relaxed, making for yet another hit this season.
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